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RARE JARRE COUVERTE EN PORCELAINE ÉMAILLÉE JAUNE ET
ROUGE
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, MARQUE À SIX CARACTÈRES EN BLEU
SOUS COUVERTE ET ÉPOQUE JIAJING (1522-1566)
La panse ovoïde terminée par un petit col droit circulaire est à décor en Red and yellow dragon jars appear to have been made in three different
jaune sur fond rouge de deux dragons à cinq griffes à la poursuite de la perle versions that vary slightly in size, design and form. This jar belongs to the
enflammée parmi les nuées surmontant des vagues s'écrasant contre des group of the largest size and comparable examples can be found in museums
rochers et une frise de têtes de ruyi soulignant le bord inférieur. Le couvercle around the world. Few from private collections ever come to the market. A
est orné d'un décor similaire.
Hauteur : 27 cm. (10v in.) closely-related jar measuring 21.8 cm high is in the collection of The British
Museum, London, donated by Harvey Heddon in 1930, 0719.48, and illustrated
€60,000-100,000 US$60,000-100,000 by Jessica Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London,
£53,000-88,000 2001, no.9:90; another in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, is illustrated
in Complete Collections of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Miscellaneous
PROVENANCE: Enamelled Porcelain, Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, Shanghai, pl.50; two further
John Sparks Ltd Insurance Valuation, dated 1953, listed as number 37.
Collection of Robin Marx (1923-1975), UK, and thence by descent within the jars were included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal
family. Academy, London, 1935-1936, one with a cut-down neck from the collection
of Dr E Haltmark, Stockholm, Sweden, no. 1949, and the second from the
A RARE RED AND YELLOW-ENAMELLED ‘DRAGON’ JAR AND COVER Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, no.1952.
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN
UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566) A closely related jar, 21 cm high, but with no cover, is illustrated in Mayuyama
馬克思中國藝術珍藏 Seventy Years, Tokyo, Japan, 1976, p278, no. 832. The same publication
明嘉靖 黃地紅彩龍㌻蓋罐 青花六字楷書款 illustrates two further red and yellow enamel dragon jars with more waisted
forms representing the two smaller sizes: the first measuring 11 cm high,
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illustrated p 278, no. 833; and the second jar, from from the collection of The
英國ਔ董商-RKQ 6SDUNV /WG 保險估價 年 號 Museum Yamato Bunkakan, Japan, measuring 13.5 cm diameter, illustrated
英國藏家羅賓g馬克思 珍藏 ਾ家族傳承
on p 278, no. 834.
The striking red and yellow combination is a distinctive colour scheme of the A red and yellow enamel 'dragon' jar, 13.4 cm high, from the Manno Art
Jiajing period but to produce these enamels on porcelain was a technically Museum was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 540. The
challenging process. The failure rate was high and these jars are rare survivors. present jar is closely related to the example sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 7
Three firings were required: first at around 1300 °C for clear-glazed porcelain, October 2015, lot 3659, that measured 20.2cm high but which had no cover.
then at a lower temperature for the yellow overglaze enamel, and finally at a
still lower temperature for the black outlines and the iron-red background.

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