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PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST PRIVATE COLLECTION
1824
A RARE SMALL MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE JAR It is noted in Comprehensive Records of Zaobanchu Workshops that
18TH CENTURY the Qianlong Emperor on occasion commissioned porcelains based
The jar is decorated with four fish swimming amidst water weeds in a on Ming prototypes with respective Ming reign marks. For example,
lotus pond, all between 'Eight Treasures,' babao, in a band below and a it is recorded that on the nineteenth day of the second month of the
band of petal lappets above. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal thirty-third year of the Qianlong reign (1768), the Qianlong Emperor
Jiajing mark. commissioned the Imperial Kilns at Jingdezhen to fire three blue and
white washers in the style of Jiajing and be inscribed with Jiajing reign
5¿ in. (13 cm.) high
marks. These wares were later delivered by Ilingga, Supervisor of the
Imperial Kilns, on the eighteenth day of the eleventh month.
$10,000-15,000
A pair of blue and white ‘dragon’ jars based on Jiajing prototypes
PROVENANCE:
and bearing Jiajing marks, but dating to the 18th century, was sold at
Louis Pappas, San Francisco, 1966.
Christie’s Hong Kong, 9 October 2019, lot 168.
John Yeon (1910-1994) Collection, Portland, Oregon.

The present jar is based on a Jiajing-period prototype, such as the
example in the Palace Collection, Beijing, illustrated in Imperial 清十八世紀 青花魚藻紋罐
Porcelains from the Reign of Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli of the Ming
Dynasty, Beijing, 2018, pp. 44-45, no. 7, and the jar sold at Christie’s
New York, 21 March 2000, lot 314.

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