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8006 The globular jar is robustly potted and exuberantly painted around the sides
A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND
EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI
‘FISH’ JAR AND COVER
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN The jar is completed with the original cover finely painted on the sides with
UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE
PERIOD (1522-1566)
明嘉靖 五彩魚藻紋蓋罐 六字楷書款
Estimate on Request 估價待詢
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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.
lotus 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 miscellaneous treasures.
18 ¿ in. (46 cm.) high, brocade box
PROVENANCE
The 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, establishing the then world record
price for a Chinese porcelain)
LHI TeElReAnTDU R. ELing and Edward.T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from
the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. I, pl. 55
Sotheby’s Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003, p. 178, no. 175
罐唇口，短頸、豐肩，圓腹，腹下漸收，圈足內凹。通體以青花、紅、黃、
綠等色繪傳統魚藻紋。肩飾覆葉紋；近足處青花繪蕉葉紋；腹部以黃彩加
礬紅繪八尾鯉魚，輔以各式水草荷花。圈足內青花書「大明嘉靖年製」楷書
款。蓋周邊一圈繪魚藻紋，蓋面飾纓絡雜寶紋，上置火焰紋寶珠鈕。
來源
胡惠春家族珍藏
紐約蘇富比，1992年12月1日，拍品282號（美金2,860,000）
香港蘇富比，私人基金珍藏明清御製瓷器及工藝品專場，
2000年10月29日，拍品18號（港幣44,044,750，當時為中國瓷器世
界拍賣記錄）
著錄
Helen D. Ling及仇焱之，《暫得樓珍藏歷代名瓷影譜》，第一冊，
香港，1950年，圖版55號
《香港蘇富比三十週年》，香港，2003年，頁178，圖版175號