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A rare blue and white jar, guan
8324 Jiajing six-character mark and of the period
A café-au-lait glazed censer with white slip Thickly potted and painted in shades of cobalt blue with a band
decoration of pearl-centered lappets around the curving shoulder, branches
Late Ming dynasty of camellia, peony, lotus and chrysanthemum encircling the
Of cylindrical form raised on three curving feet, molded with a raised compressed globular body above a stiff leaf band rising from the
string band encircling the upper body that separates branches of foot, the six-character mark written in regular script within a double
pine, bamboo and prunus from the three qilin separated by cloud ring beneath a celadon-tinged glaze applied everywhere except
formations drawn in raised white slip on the coffee colored glaze the foot pad and the altered rim of the neck now covered with a
covering the exterior walls, flat base and the in-curving rim, the interior metallic copper colored pigment.
surfaces covered with a celadon-tinged glaze. 8 1/2in (21.6cm) high
5 1/4in (13.3cm) 11 1/4in (28.5cm) diameter
$2,000 - 3,000 $15,000 - 20,000
For a similar glazed censer with white slip dragon decoration but Provenance
raised on what appears to be cylindrical feet, see the example Rare Art, Inc. 1981
included in the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong exhibition
Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 224, A similar blue and white jar with the original neck preserved, also
cat. 217, also as Late Ming, 17th century. Jiajing mark and of the period, sold in Sotheby’s, Hong Kong sale
HK0203, 25 April 2004, lot 298 (9 1/2in/24.2cm high).
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