A BLUE AND WHITE CHENGHUA-STYLE JAR

LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY

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A BLUE AND WHITE CHENGHUA-STYLE JAR
LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY
The compressed globular body is painted around the sides with a band of mallow meander bearing four blossoms separated by leaves. The shoulder is decorated with a band of overlapping petals below the short neck, and the foot is encircled by a stylized lappet border. The base is unglazed.
5¼ in. (13.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Acquired in New York in the early 1980s.

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Lot Essay

The design on this jar is based on 'palace bowls' with Chenghua reign marks, such as the example in the Ataka Collection illustrated by T. Nakano, The Panoramic Views of Chinese Patterns, Tokyo, 1985, pl. 109, and another in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Hu, Shanghai, 1989, p. 52, no. 19. The shape of the jar can also be found amongst Chenghua wares, such as the example decorated with various flowering plants illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Cheng-hua Porcelain Ware, Taipei, 2003, p. 103, no. 85.

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