A RARE WUCAI SQUARE JAR, GUAN

JIAJING UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1521-1567)

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A RARE WUCAI SQUARE JAR, GUAN
JIAJING UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1521-1567)
The jar is decorated to each side of the body with a large lobed cartouche surrounded by leafy floral sprays, each enclosing a scaly five-clawed red or green dragon with a flaming pearl. The sloping shoulder below the square neck is decorated with a band of small lobed floral cartouches, interspersed with stylised clouds, on a red geometric diaper ground. The footrim is encircled with a colourful lotus lappet band.
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high

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A smaller wucai square jar, with less prominent high shoulders and enamelled with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 27 April 1997, lot 69.

Compare also two smaller jars with similarly painted dragons to the current lot, one illustrated in The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 38: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 5, no. 5 and the other by Jessica Harrison-Hall, in Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 259, no. 103.