JIAJING SIX CHARACTER MARK

Details

A blue and white square 'dragon' box and cover
Jiajing six character mark
The top painted with two five-clawed dragons emerging from crested waves and centred by a long peach stem inscribed with a Shou character, the sloping shoulders and straight rim painted to the four sides with a dragon among flaming clouds above a floral scroll, repeated to the base, rim chips to inner rim
25.4 cm. square, 14.4 cm. high

Provenance

Purchased from auction Hugo Helbring, Frankfurt, 12 December 1934, cat. nr. 44, lot 378, pl. 18.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A very close example to this box and cover, but with a Wanli mark is in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. See R, Marks, R. Scott, B. Gasson, J.K. Thomson & P Vainker, The Burrell Collection, Collins, London and Glasgow, revised reprint 1984, p. 53, pl. 19.

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