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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE JAR
VIETNAM, 15TH -16TH CENTURY
The jar is decorated in varying shades of underglaze blue with three
mythical beasts chasing one another, between a band of ruyi heads on
the everted shoulder and a band of petal lappets above the base.
9Ω in. (24.5 cm.) high, lacquer cover, Japanese wood box
$10,000-15,000
Compare the blue and white jar of similar form, but with a less flared
foot, decorated with birds amongst foliage in the main band above
a band of lappets similar to that seen on the present jar, formerly in
the collection of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Piccus, illustrated in J. Stevenson
and J. Guy, Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, Chicago,
1997, p. 361, no. 338, where it is dated 16th century. Also illustrated,
p. 360, nos. 334 and 335, are two blue and white jars with different
decoration to the present jar, but of similar form including the flared
foot, which are dated 15th-16th century.
越南 十五/十六世紀 安南窯青花瑞獸圖大罐
(another view)
