Lot Essay
A Jiajing mark and period wucai jar (20.6 cm; high) with a similarly colourful lappet band encircling the base was sold at Christie's London, 6 November 2012, lot 298. Zhou Feng in "Woven Colours in China/The Five Colors in Chinese Culture and Polychrome Woven Textiles", 2010, published in Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings, 63, references a 16th century wucai jar with the same design and colour palette.
Compare with a slightly larger wucai jar (19.3 cm high), similarly decorated with flying cranes and Daoist emblems and also bearing a Jiajing mark, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing (accession no. Gu145723).
Compare with a slightly larger wucai jar (19.3 cm high), similarly decorated with flying cranes and Daoist emblems and also bearing a Jiajing mark, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing (accession no. Gu145723).