A rare yellow-glazed cup, Jiajing mark and period - Sotheby's

of bell shape, well potted with deep curved sides elegantly rising from a short foot to a flared rim, covered overall in a rich egg-yolk yellow glaze leaving the footring unglazed, the base inscribed in underglaze-blue with a six-character mark within a double-circle, Japanese wood box. Quantité: 2 - 12cm., 4 3/4 in. Estimation: 100,000 - 150,000 GBP

NOTE: The shape of the present rare cup, distinctively deep and of flared form, represents an innovation of the Jiajing period and was produced almost only in this reign of the Ming dynasty, and mainly covered in yellow and dark blue glazes. A similar pair of yellow cups, bearing Jiajing reign marks and of the period, from the Meiyintang collection and illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 698, was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 7th April 2011, lot 62; another from the collections of B.Z. Seligman and Sir Alfred Ackroyd,included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, London, 1948, cat. no. 60, was sold in these rooms 11th May 1954, lot 64, 17th May 1966, lot 36, and again at Christie’s London, 7th June 2004, lot 281; a pair from the collection of Edward T. Chow was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1981, lot 452; and a cup from the Hall family collection and included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, cat. no. 60, and colour plate, p. 23, was sold in these rooms, 26th July 1966, lot 68, and again in our Hong Kong rooms, 2nd May 2000, lot 506, and is further illustrated in Sotheby’s Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003, pl. 124

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. London | 15 mai 2013, www.sothebys.com