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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP BELL-SHAPED CUP PROVENANCE
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE Bluett & Sons, London.
AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566) The Falk Collection, no. 267.
Christie’s New York, The Falk Collection I, 16 October 2001, lot 139.
The exterior is decorated with four roundels of side-facing fve-clawed
Kitayama Fine Arts, Tokyo.
dragons chasing faming pearls amidst fames, each positioned above
a peach sprig and separated by the babao and clouds. The interior is
There appear to be no other published cups of this design and decoration. There
decorated with a shou character.
is, however, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, a Jiajing mark and period
4¡ in. (11.2 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box cup with a similar bell-form profle painted with three sheep on the exterior
along with pine, bamboo, plum, palm trees, and taihu stones, as well a slightly
$30,000-50,000 narrower cup, also Jiajing mark and period, with a scene of a pavilion between
arching columns; both examples illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New
Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p. 225, nos. 424 and 426.
明嘉靖 青花龍紋盃 六字楷書款

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