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Fig. 1  A covered jar with lug handles,   Fig. 2  A covered jar with lug handles,   Fig. 3  A jadeite-green glazed jar with   Fig. 4  A tianbai-glazed jar, Ming
                       Ming dynasty, Yongle period. Qing   Ming dynasty, Yongle period.   lug handles, Ming dynasty, Yongle   dynasty, Yongle period. Shanghai
                       court collection, Palace Museum,   Collection of the National Palace   period, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Museum, Shanghai © Shanghai
                       Beijing © Palace Museum, Beijing  Museum, Taipei  Photograph © 2018 Museum of Fine   Museum
                                                                         Arts, Boston
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              After the Yongle period this subtle coloration, which requires impeccably
              prepared materials and utmost control of the ! ring, was abandoned and never   ၯڡཊۜd̀ഹၚҿdᘌછ㜺˦d˙ϓԳ
              properly revived, even though a large range of exquisite bluish-green glaze tones   ኜd݂І͑ᆀʘܝdʊ್૝ደdٜЇɧϵϋ
              were created again three centuries later, in the Yongzheng reign (1723-1735),   ܝdའ͍܎֠ඩd֐ഹɢూጳڡཊۜ၇dϾ
              quite possibly modeled on pieces such as this jar, which undoubtedly would   ϤᗳۜуᏐމᅼ͉ʘɓf
              have caught the Yongzheng Emperor’s eye.
                                                                                     ͑ᆀ̆ڡཊۜd̙ਞϽʞ΁৷ԑ䋘ԷjՇԷ
                                                                                     ᔛ̏ԯ݂ࢗ௹ي৫d፽׼˾ݳ؛͑ᆀ੿㜺
              The celadon glaze (dongqing) is known from ! ve contemporary Yongle stem
                                                                                     ନኜ‘dۃࠑ̈ஈdྡو141ʿ݂ࢗ௹ي৫
              bowls: two in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Mingdai Hongwu Yongle
                                                                                     ᔛ˖يޜۜΌණ‘dۃࠑ̈ஈdྡو124d˸
              yuyao ciqi, op.cit., pl. 141 and The Complete Collection of Treasures, op.cit., pl.   ʿঅᘒ׹ᇜd݂ࢗ௹ي৫ᔛ̚ௗନ༟ࣘ፯
              124; and in Geng Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuguan cang gu taoci ciliao xuancui   ၘ‘d̏ԯd2005ϋd՜1dྡو88iɓԷ
              [Selection of ancient ceramic material from the Palace Museum], Beijing,   ᔛГᔛ௹ي᎜d༱Гᔛ௹ي᎜ᔛ׼૶ନኜ
              2005, vol. 1, pl. 88; one in the Tibet Museum, illustrated in Xizang Bowuguan   ၚۜ‘d̏ԯd2004ϋdྡو26iᘽబˢש
              cang Ming Qing ciqi jingpin/Ming and Qing Dynasties Ceramics Preserved   ርՇԷdՉɓʫኣུฮڀᎲ७d໇͑ᆀϋႡ
                                                                                     ̬οᇏಛdਯ࠰ಥᘽబˢ1981ϋ11˜24˚d
              in Tibet Museum, Beijing, 2004, pl. 26; and two sold in our rooms, one with
                                                                                     ᇜ໮133dᘱਯॲߒᘽబˢ2001ϋ3˜22˚d
              anhua dragons around the interior and a four-character Yongle mark incised
                                                                                     ᇜ໮90iՉɚೌಛdਯࡐ౱ᘽబˢ1981ϋ4
              in the center, sold in Hong Kong, 24th November 1981, lot 133, and again in
                                                                                     ˜7˚dᇜ໮252ʿ࠰ಥᘽబˢ1983ϋ5˜11
              these rooms, 22nd March 2001, lot 90; the other unmarked, sold in our London   ˚dᇜ໮105fڡͣཊۜdԈɓ䋘Էdᓙ˾͑
              rooms, 7th April 1981, lot 252, and in our Hong Kong rooms, 11th May 1983,   ᆀd૶ࢗᔚᔛdତᔛ̏ԯ݂ࢗ௹ي৫d፽
              lot 105. For a pale bluish-green (qingbai) glazed piece in the Palace Museum,   ݂ࢗ௹ي৫ᔛ˖يޜۜΌණ‘dۃࠑ̈ஈd
              Beijing, see the bowl from the Qing court collection illustrated in The Complete   ྡو125f
              Collection of Treasures, op.cit., pl. 125, there also attributed to the Yongle period.
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