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737 A RARE BLUE AND WHITE FACETED
‘DRAGON’ JAR
the phoenixes, and retaining a faceted cover, is illustrated
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A by Sir H. Garner, Oriental Blue and White, London, 1954,
DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) no. 50. Two further jars with pairs of dragons on each side
include one illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures
The jar is decorated on each side in vibrant blue with a fve- of the Palace Museum - 35 - Blue and White Porcelain with
clawed scaly dragon above a pair of phoenixes and a crane in Underglazed Red (II), Hong Kong, 2000, p. 102, no. 95, and
fight, all amidst fowers and precious objects. The shoulder the example illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu
is decorated with pendent leaves and the neck with scrolls Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 703. Another Jiajing-marked
beneath double lines at the lipped rim. faceted jar decorated with vases of fowers is illustrated in
7¬ in. (19.3 cm.) high Sekai Toji Zenshu, Japan, 1976, vol. 14, p. 197, no. 189.

$50,000-80,000 明萬曆 青花龍鳳雲鶴紋方罐
雙方框六字楷書款
PROVENANCE

Private collection, Edinburgh, Scotland.

It is rare to fnd a jar of this type from the Wanli period, and
the inclusion of the pairs of phoenixes below each dragon is
extremely unusual. Only one other example appears to have
been published: see Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, 1976,
p. 321, no. 959.

A related faceted jar, Jiajing mark and period, decorated with
a dragon on each side surrounded by fowers, but without

80 (mark)