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A RARE PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ JARS Imperial porcelains produced in the Qianlong reign but with a
AND COVERS Jiajing six-character mark are significantly rare. Evidence for this
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY is found in the Comprehensive Records of Zaobanchu Workshops,
Each jar is finely decorated with a pair of dragons amidst clouds, which states that on the nineteenth day of the second month of
below a band of ruyi-heads around the shoulder and lappets the thirty-third year of the Qianlong reign (1768), the Qianlong
around the foot. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal Jiajing Emperor commissioned the Imperial Kilns at Jingdezhen to fire
six-character mark. The covers are similarly decorated. three blue and white washers in the style of Jiajing and marked
Jiajing, and which were later delivered by Ilingga, Supervisor of the
8º in. (20.8 cm.) overall height, box (2) Imperial Kilns, on the eighteenth day of the eleventh month.

HK$600,000-800,000 US$77,000-100,000 A related Qianlong mark-and-period red and yellow-enameled
dragon covered jar, also in the style of Jiajing, is illustrated in Lu
The form and decoration of this lot is inspired by Jiajing blue and Chenglong and Jiang Jianxin eds., Mingdai Jiajing Longqing Wanli
white jars, an example of which is in the National Palace Museum, yuyao ciqi-Jingdezhen yuyao yizhi chutu yu Gugong bowuyuan
Taipei, with a Jiajing mark and bearing an almost identical pattern. chuanshi ciqi duibi, vol. 1, Beijing, 2018, pp. 388-389, pl. 234.
See Gugong cangci-Ming qinghuaci (Porcelain of the National
Palace Museum: Blue-and-White Wares of the Ming Dynasty),
Hong Kong, 1963, pp. 48-49, no. 14 (fig. 1).

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