JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL ‘DRAGON’ JAR
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
10 3⁄8 in. (26.4 cm) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Property of a gentleman; sold at Christie’s London, 19 June 1967, lot 87
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London
Mayuyama & Co. Ltd., Tokyo

Literature

Toji Taikei, vol. 42, Min no Sometsuke, Tokyo, 1975, p. 69, no. 79
Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, no. 861 (fig.1)
Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, New Jersey, 1984, p. 128, no. 4 (fig.2)

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Lot Essay

No other hexagonal jar of this form, bearing comparable decoration and a Jiajing mark, appears to have been published. Decoration of five-clawed dragons leaping amid lotus scrolls is more commonly found on smaller, square Jiajing jars, such as an example in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Mingdai guanyao ciqi, Shanghai, 2007, p. 45, no. 1-55. Given its hexagonal form, the present jar would have required a higher level of technical skill to produce.

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