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The Cosmopolitan Club，紐約，1979年9月18日至10月22日

Catalogue Note
Richly painted with a processional scene of four Daoist immortals, the present lot belongs to a small group of similarly painted jars
produced during the Jiajing and Wanli periods. A jar of the same design and with the Jiajing reign mark similarly arranged in a
circle from the Qing Court Collection is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and White
Porcelain with Underglaze Red (II), Hong Kong, 2000, pl. 99. Three Wanli mark and period jars of this type have sold in our London
rooms, the first 18th May 1971, lot 195; the second 19th June 1984, lot 262 and the third 10th June 1986, lot 235.

A related group of slightly larger lobed jars painted with the same subject are also known to have been produced in both the Jiajing
and Wanli periods. See a Jiajing mark and period example from the Riesco Collection, included in the exhibition Chinese Blue and
White Porcelain, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1953, cat. no. 163, subsequently sold in our London rooms, 11th December
1984, lot 323. Two further examples were sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 28th November 1979, lot 97 and 28th April 1992, lot 43;
and a third was sold in these rooms, 16th September 2009, lot 189. A Wanli mark and period example was sold in our London
rooms, 18th June 1968, lot 51.

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