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AN AMBER GLAZED STORAGE JAR A PALE BROWN GLAZED STORAGE JAR A TALL BROWN GLAZED STORAGE JAR
WITH TIGER AND FLORAL SCROLL WITH RAISED DRAGON DECORATION WITH APPLIED DECORATION
DECORATION Ming dynasty Ming dynasty or later
China or Vietnam, 14th-16th century Of inverted pear form and applied with five Of a well-known shape associated with
Of inverted pair form with six loop handles strap work loops terminating in raised mask South Chinese kilns, potted with a wide
on the high shoulder molded as tigers and heads around the neck and shoulder above rounded rim to the cylindrical neck, strap
another four rampant tigers alternating with pie crust bands bordering two pairs of work loops above a row of birds along the
composite flowers in raised relief rising from dragons facing flaming pearls applied in high shoulder and two dragons chase flaming
leaf scrolls incised into the upper walls, the relief, with some incised details (glaze flaking, pearls amid clouds on the elongated body all
forehead of each animal incised with the old chips). in raised relief below an uneven brown glaze.
character wang (glaze degraded). 21 1/4in (54cm) high 34 3/4in (88cm) high
23in (58.5cm) high
US$500 - 700 US$600 - 800
US$500 - 700
For a jar in a private collection, of slightly
A jar of the same size, shape and decoration, larger size but molded with similar mask-
also with the character wang (king) incised ended lug handles, dragons chasing flaming
into the foreheads of the tigers, (OKS 1984- pearls and pie crust band, see Cynthia O.
70, 58.5cm high) has been attributed to the Valdes, Kerry Nguyen Long and Artemio C.
Go-sanh kilns in central Vietnam, 14th-16th Barbosa, A Thousand Years of Stoneware
century: see Dr. Eva Strober, The Collection Jars in the Philippines (Manila, 1992), no. 62,
of Chinese and Southeast Asian Jars p.126 (69cm high, as probably Guangdong,
(martaban, martavanen) at the Princessehof 16th century).
Museum, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, pp.
11-12 (available on the internet).
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