A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE GLOBULAR JAR AND COVER

CIRCA 1640

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A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE GLOBULAR JAR AND COVER
circa 1640
The oviform body painted in a strong cobalt blue with a 'cracked-ice'- pattern ground reserved with leafy lotus sprays and large fruit-shaped panels enclosing flower sprigs symbolic of the four seasons between scattered clusters of bamboo leaves, the plain white waisted neck concealed by a cylindrical cover with similar leafy lotus-sprays on a 'cracked-ice' ground, minor corner chips
11½ in. (29 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A similar jar is illustrated in The Tectus Collection, Central Tryckeriet AB, Boras, Sweden 1991, pp.202 & 203, no.78. For similar jars and covers see Colin Sheaf and Richard Kilburn, The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes, The Complete Record, p.60, pl.82

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