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PROPERTY FROM A TEXAS COLLECTION THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE JAR AND COVER A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE FISH BOWL
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619) JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE
WITHIN A RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
The heavily potted jar is painted with foliate scrolls bearing various
fruits and fowers, interspersed with sea shells, double-gourd, bamboo The heavily-potted, deep drum-shaped body is decorated on the
shoots, and Buddhist emblems, between borders of classic scroll and exterior with two fve-clawed dragons striding around the sides in
ruyi heads. The domed cover is decorated with further foliate scrolls, pursuit of faming pearls between petal-lappet borders, all below a
and is surmounted by a pearl-shaped knob. narrow band of foliate scroll at the rim.
17º in. (44 cm.) high 19 in. (48.5 cm.) high
$6,000-8,000 $20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE 明嘉靖 青花雙龍趕珠紋大缸 單行方框六字楷書款
Myrna Myers, Paris, 1982.
明萬曆 青花花果雑寳紋蓋罐
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