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46 SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK 20 MARCH 2018 MING: LUMINOUS DAWN OF EMPIRE

!"# PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN
PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE ‘WINTERGREEN’-
GLAZED JAR AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, YONGLE PERIOD

" nely potted, the elegant jar of compressed globular form, with a broad
# at base and tapered sides extending to the softly rounded shoulders
and rising to a short straight neck, veiled in an exquisitely rich and silky
‘wintergreen’ glaze thinning at the mouth rim and pooling around the
shoulders in a sea-green tone, su$ used with a " ne network of craquelure
resembling silver threads across the surface, the low # at cover similarly
glazed (2)
Diameter 4¾ in., 12 cm

PROVENANCE
Important Asian Private Collection.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8th October 2009, lot 1624.
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$ 1,500,000-2,000,000