A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI ‘FISH’ JAR AND COVER
A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI ‘FISH’ JAR AND COVER
A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI ‘FISH’ JAR AND COVER
A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI ‘FISH’ JAR AND COVER
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A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI ‘FISH’ JAR AND COVER

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

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A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI ‘FISH’ JAR AND COVER
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
The globular jar is robustly potted and exuberantly painted around the sides with a continuous scene of eight golden carp depicted in different positions as they swim amidst floating aquatic plants above a band of lotus plants in shades of green and yellow and further water weeds in underglaze blue. The carp are set between a band of overlapping leaf tips in underglaze blue below and a band of petals lappets in yellow, iron-red and blue with blue outlines at the shoulder. The jar is completed with the original cover finely painted on the sides with lotuses dividing two pairs of golden carp, surmounted by a bud-finial decorated with swirling colours of green, red, yellow and blue, above radiating beaded tassels interlinked with various Daoist emblems.
18 1/8 in. (46 cm.), brocade box
来源
J.M. Hu Family Collection
Sold at Sotheby’s New York, 1 December 1992, lot 282 (sold for US$2,860,000)
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, An Extraordinary Collection of Ming and Qing Imperial Porcelain and Works of Art from a Private Trust, 29 October 2000, lot 18 (sold for HK$44,044,750, then world record price for a Chinese porcelain)
出版
Helen D. Ling and Edward. T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. I, 1950, pl. 55
Sothebys Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003, p. 178, no. 175

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Aside from the present piece, only three other Jiajing fish jars complete with a cover appear to have been sold at auction. The first is the companion piece to the current jar, also from the J.M. Hu Collection and sold at Sotheby’s New York, 4 June 1985, lot 12. The other was formerly in the collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, later sold at Sotheby’s New York, 11 September 2012, lot 262. The third was sold at Sotheby’s London, 24 March 1953, lot 76, and passed through various hands including Rutherford Alcock, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Mrs. Alfred Clark, and later John D. Rockefeller 3rd, now at the Asia Society, New York and illustrated in Denise Patry Leidy, Treasures of Asian Art, New York, 1994, pp. 194-5, col. pl. 193.

At least four examples with covers are preserved in major museum collections in China, including two in the collection of the Palace Museum, one of which is illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colors, The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum, vol. 38, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 16, no. 15; one excavated in Beijing in 1955 and now in the National Museum of China, illustrated in Zhonggguo wenwu jinghua dacidian, Shanghai, 1996, no. 772; and one in the Tianjin Museum, illustrated in Porcelain from the Tianjin Municipal Museum, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 198, pl. 116.

Other covered jar examples are in major museum collections around the world. One is from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated in Gems of Chinese Art from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1983, no. 33. Y. Mino and J. Robinson illustrated another one in Beauty and Tranquillity: The Ely Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983, pp. 252-3, pl. 100. Another example from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore is published in Ming Porcelains, China Institute in America, New York, 1970, no. 42. The example in the Musee Guimet is illustrated by D. Lion-Goldschmidt in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, vol. 7, 1981, pl. 151 and colour pl. 22. One in the S.E. Kennedy Collection is illustrated in R.L. Hobson, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1915, vol. II, pl. 69. One is illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 823.

Other Jiajing jars without a cover include one which was excavated in 1967 in Hepingli, Chaoyangqu, Beijing, published in Wenwu, 1972: 6, p. 64, and inside back cover; one in the collection of the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Liu Liang-yu in Ming Official Wares, Survey of Chinese Ceramics, Vol. 4, Taipei, 1991, p. 212, lower left image; and one acquired from Mayuyama Ryusendo, Tokyo, exhibited at Tokyo National Museum around 1970 and Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura from around 1970 to 1980, later sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2012, lot 4063.
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