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659 A BLUE AND WHITE SQUARE
180 SOTHEBY’S COVER
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

well crafted with the shoulder gracefully curving
to a square dome topped with an onion-shaped

nial, painted in inky cobalt tones with curling
vines issuing from the corners and sides of the
shoulder and from the base of the nial, the nial
painted blue with vertical white lines in reserve, all
above a tapering base of circular form
Width 3 in., 7.6 cm

A cover of this form would have been used on a
small square jar, such as the one in the collection
of the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated in
William Bowyer Honey, The Ceramic Art of China
and Other Countries of the Far East, London,
1945, pl. 93a. A jar of the same shape dating to
the Yongle / Xuande period was sold in our Hong
Kong rooms, 30th October 2002, lot 275.

$ 4,000-6,000

659

A POLYCHROME ENAMELED JAR
AND A COVER
JIAJING MARK AND PERIOD

of ovoid form painted on the exterior in iron-red,
green, and yellow enamels, the body with two

gural scenes divided by clouds, between borders
of alternating red and green triangles, an abstract
lappet band around the foot, the shoulder with
a chrysanthemum scroll reserved against a red
ground, the rim wrapped in a brass band, the
base with an underglaze blue six-character mark
within a double-circle, wood cover (2)
Height 6 in., 15.2 cm

$ 8,000-12,000