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BEYOND COMPARE: A Thousand Years of the Literati Aesthetic
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE ASIAN
COLLECTION
8021
AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE JUN
‘NUMBER FOUR’ JARDINIERE
YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The jardinière is of a deep inverted bell form, and covered overall with a
thick and finely flecked lavender-blue glaze shading to brown at the rim
and foot. The base is pierced with five drainage holes, and covered with a
wash of light greenish-brown, with an incised numeral si, ‘four’.
10 in. (25.4 cm.) wide
HK$30,000,000-50,000,000 US$3,900,000-6,400,000
PROVENANCE
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 17 November 1975, lot 5
LITERATURE
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, The 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Tokyo, 1981,
fig. 1 Idemitsu Bijutsukan, Kaikan Jugoshunen Kinenten Zuroku
no. 693 (fig. 1)
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