18TH CENTURY

For the Jiajing prototype for this vase, see the blue and white example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 35 - Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), Hong Kong, 2000, p. 87, no. 81. See, also, the blue and white vase of similar design and with an apocryphal Jiajing mark on the bulbous mouth, but of smaller size (20 cm.), from the Estate of Frances Leventritt, sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 2006, lot 306.