JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

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A MING BLUE AND WHITE OVIFORM JAR
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
The rounded body painted with five horses leaping over swirling and breaking waves above a band of cloud-shaped lappets encircling the base, all below the anbaxiang, Eight Treasures, emblems attached to beaded jewellery chains suspending from a band of ruyi-head on the shoulder, below a tapered cylindrical neck with lotus scrolls
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

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Hirano Kotoken

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Lot Essay

Compare with three jars of this shape and pattern, the first is illustrated in Selected Masterpieces from the Collection of the Nezu Art Museum, 1968, no. 310; in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (II), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 112, no. 102; and another from the Christina Loke Balsara Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 19 January 1988, lot 256.

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