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The lotus scroll decoration and combination of green and red colors found on
this vase are reminiscent of the design and color palette found on Chenghua-
period ceramics. See a green-decorated red-ground tripod censer excavated
from the late Chenghua stratum at Jingdezhen, illustrated in A Legacy of
Chenghua: Imperial Porcelain of the Chenghua Reign Excavated from Zhushan,
Jingdezhen, Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 188-89.
Other Jiajing double-gourd vases of this design include an example from the
Grandidier Collection, illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain,
pl. 12; one formerly from the Bloxam Collection, illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall,
Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pl. 9:94, one from the
Ataka Collection in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, illustrated in
the Catalogue, Osaka, 1998, no. 31; one in the Sumitomo collection, illustrated
in Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka,
1999, p. 78, no. 54; one in the Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen,
illustrated by A. Leth, Catalogue of Selected Objects of Chinese Art in the
Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 1959, no. 114; one from
the Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics at
the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no. 164; and another illustrated by R.
Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994,
no. 707.

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