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A RARE GREEN AND YELLOW-GLAZED ‘DRAGON’ JAR

WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

The ovoid jar is decorated with four shaped panels of fve-clawed dragons leaping
amidst fames and chasing a faming pearl above rocks and waves, each separated by
the bajixiang (Eight Buddhist Emblems), all beneath a lappet border on the shoulder.
6æ in. (17.1 cm.) high
$50,000-70,000

PROVENANCE

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1923 (Rogers Fund).

LITERATURE

S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 ed., p. 190,
no. 186.
Compare the present jar with a number of related yellow-and green-glazed
Wanli-marked jars decorated with dragons enclosed within barbed cartouches,
including one from the Yokogawa collection illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The
World’s Greatest Collections, Vol. 1, Tokyo National Museum, 1982, no. 124, and
another in the Baur collection, Geneva illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection,
Vol. 2, Geneva, 1969, no. A208.
明萬曆 綠地黃彩開光海水雲龍紋罐 雙圈六字楷書款
來源
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1923年 (Rogers 基金)。

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