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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'SHOU'-CHARACTER JAR
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND PROBABLY
OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The jar is heavily potted with a high-shouldered body and the exterior is decorated with a pattern of shou
roundels reserved against a ground of scrolling lotus tendrils. The base is encircled with a band of ruyi-
heads and the short neck is encircled by a pattern of conjoined lotus buds.
18⅜ in. (46.8 cm) high
£30,000-50,000 US$40,000-65,000
€35,000-58,000
PROVENANCE:
Formerly from a Private French Collection.

明萬曆或更晚 青花壽紋大罐 雙圈六字楷書款

來源: 法國私人舊藏

Several Wanli-marked jars of this type are recorded including one with its original cover excavated in
the Dongsheng district in Beijing in 1971, and published in Wenwu, 1972, no. 6, and illustrated on the
inside back cover, fg. 3. See, also, the jar with short neck and more tightly painted shou characters with
a very loose linked ruyi-head border at the base in the Ardebil Shrine Collection, illustrated by T. Misugi
in Chinese Porcelain Collections in the Near East: Topkapi and Ardebil, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 207, A.117.
Another Wanli-marked jar of this type in the collection of the Museum Pusat, Jakarta, is illustrated by
Abu Ridho in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 3, Tokyo, 1982, no. 226.

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