Lot 340
340
A SMALL WUCAI BALUSTER JAR
This lot is exempt from Sales Tax. Property from the Saint Louis Art Museum, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund*
A SMALL WUCAI BALUSTER JAR

WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

Details
A SMALL WUCAI BALUSTER JAR
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
Decorated with a frieze of leafy polychrome lotus scroll bearing two large iron-red blossoms separating a large yellow blossom on one side and a small underglaze blue blossom on the other, between polychrome petal-lappet borders, the short neck encircled by a narrow band of classic scroll
4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) across
Provenance
Yamanaka & Co., New York, 1919.
Special notice
This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.

Lot Essay

This wucai jar appears to be a Wanli interpretation of earlier Chenghua (1465-1487) doucai prototypes, such as the similarly decorated doucai jar of this same baluster shape, with a cover and with a tian mark, illustrated in Ming Chenghua Ciqi Tezhan, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1977, no. 159.

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