A RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE JAR
ENCIRCLED XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Painted to the baluster body with a composite flower scroll consisting of lotus, camellia, peony and chrysanthemum between bands of barbed tridents at the foot and below the rim (rim chip with associtated hairline and foot chips restored)--5¼in. (13.3cm.) high
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Compare with a slightly more compressed Xuande marked jar, with similar decoration but with different flowers issuing from the continuous scroll, sold in out London Rooms, 14 December, 1987, lot 213