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AN INCISED WHITE-GLAZED the Huaihaitang Collection with white glaze
‘DRAGON’ JAR and incised decoration similar to that of the
JIAJING MARK AND PERIOD present example except with phoenixes instead
of dragons, illustrated in Enlightening Elegance:
the ovoid body with rounded broad shoulders Imperial Porcelain of the mid to late Ming, the
tapering to a recessed base, incised with a Huahaitang Collection, The Art Museum, The
collar of ruyi around the short neck, a pair of Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
sinuous dragons writhing amidst clouds and 2013, cat. no. 15. Consider an earlier prototype,
flames, a row of lappets at the foot, covered a white-glazed jar incised with dragons amongst
overall in a milky-white glaze, the base with a clouds from the Yongle period, excavated at
six-character mark in underglaze blue within a Jingdezhen and illustrated in Yuan and Ming
double circle, wood stand and box (6) Imperial Porcelains Unearthed from Jingdezhen,
Height 4 in., 10.2 cm Yan-Huang Art Museum, Beijing, 1999, cat. no.
95.
PROVENANCE
Collection of María Marcela Roca Funes, $ 8,000-12,000
Baronesa de Marchi della Costa (1877-1981),
acquired as a gift from a minister of China in 明嘉靖 白釉暗刻雲龍紋小罐
Japan, 1910 (by repute).
A similar jar was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 《大明嘉靖年製》款
20th May 1987, lot 434, and another, also in
our Hong Kong rooms, 15th November 1988, 來源
lot 155. A Jiajing mark and period jar with María Marcela Roca Funes，de Marchi della
similar carving but under a blue glaze was Costa 男爵夫人 (1877-1981) 收藏，1910年
included in the exhibition Ming Porcelain, China 由駐日本中國官員贈予 (傳)
Institute in America, New York, 1970, cat. no.
51. Compare a Jiajing mark and period jar from

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