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TWO SMALL ‘MA JUN’ WATER POTS

MING DYNASTY (1368-1644) OR LATER

One vessel is in the shape of a pomegranate and covered

allover in a milky-turquoise glaze highlighted with purple

splashes. The other has a compressed body covered on the

exterior with a purple glaze with a turquoise splash on the

body and with turquoise glaze on the interior and foot.

Pomegranate-form water pot 3 in. (7.7 cm.) high,

compressed water pot 1æ in. (4.4 cm.) high (2)

$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE 821

Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection. 822
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
accessioned in 1926. 53

EXHIBITED

The pomegranate-form water pot: Japan Society, at the
Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., Chinese, Corean and
Japanese Potteries: Descriptive Catalogue of Loan Exhibition
of Selected Examples, New York, 2-21 March 1914, p. 65,
no. 201.

明或以後 鈞窯系小水盂兩件

來源
Samuel T. Peters 夫人（1859-1943）珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1926年。

展覽
石榴形水盂：日本協會，紐約 M. Knoedler & Co. 畫廊，
《Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries: Descriptive
Catalogue of Loan Exhibition of Selected Examples》，1914年3
月2日至21日，65頁，編號201。

822

AN UNUSUAL PURPLE-SPLASHED ‘MA
JUN’ VASE

QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

The vase has a globular body and a short neck fanked
by a pair of shaped handles, and is set on a rounded,
pierced integral stand, and covered overall with a glaze of
crackled, milky bluish-grey tone accented on each side
with purple splashes.
7æ in. (19.6 cm.) high

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
accessioned in 1926.

清 鈞窯系藍釉紫斑雙耳連座瓶

來源
Samuel T. Peters 夫人（1859-1943）珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1926年。