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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F.
BROWN
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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE AND YELLOW, GREEN AND
AUBERGINE-ENAMELED INCISED OVOID VASE
JIAJING-WANLI PERIOD (1522-1619)
The central panel is incised with lotus scroll with yellow tendrils
and aubergine flowerheads on a green ground, between a band of
lotus scroll on the shoulder and a band of lappets above the foot,
both in underglaze blue.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

$12,000-18,000
PROVENANCE:
Christie's London, 11 December 1987, lot 100.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

The design of this jar, with underglaze-blue bands above and
below a wide band of overglaze enamels, is very rare. A very
similar jar is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, accession
no., 4396-1857, and is illustrated in R.L. Hobson, Chinese Pottery
and Porcelain, New York, 1915, vol. II, p. 160. The V&A example is
nearly identical to the present jar in the decoration of its middle
and lower bands, but differs in that its upper band is decorated
with shaped panels of horses.

明嘉靖/萬曆 青花加彩蓮紋罐

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