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PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION A closely related jar, from the collection of Baroness V. von
Lossberg, was sold in these rooms, 25th March 1975, lot 276;
A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI ‘MING STYLE’ JARS one was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 5th November 1997,
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD lot 1500; another was sold at Christie’s London, 13th January,
1987, lot 486; and a pair with covers was sold in our Hong Kong
each compressed globular body rising from a recessed base to rooms, 11th April 2008, lot 2903. See also a slightly smaller
a short straight neck, brightly enamelled around the exterior covered jar, attributed to the Kangxi reign, in the Palace
with leafy oral camellia sprays issuing from three jagged Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of
rocks, divided by smaller sprays and butter ies, the base with Treasures of the Palace Museum, op. cit., pl. 211, together with
an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark one attributed to the Yongzheng period, pl. 232; and another in
(2) the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum’s
13 cm, 5⅛ in. exhibition Ming Chenghua ciqi tezhan [Special exhibition of
Chenghua porcelain], Taipei, 1976, cat. no. 164.
£ 20,000-30,000
HK$ 193,000-290,000 US$ 24,900-37,300 The form and design of this pair of jars are closely related to
their Chenghua period prototypes, such as a jar in the Palace
箤 Museum, Beijing, published in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelains in Polychrome and
Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 167.
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