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6 mai 2014

An iron-red and yellow-glazed 'Dragon' jar, Jiajing mark and period

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An iron-red and yellow-glazed 'Dragon' jar, Jiajing mark and period. Photo Sotheby's

the baluster body rising from a recessed base to a short straight neck, brightly decorated around the exterior with two sinuous scaly yellow dragon amidst leafy scrolling ruyi, all between rocks and waves at the base and ruyi clouds at the shoulder and reserved on a rich dark iron-red ground, the six-character mark in underglaze-blue to the base, carved wood stand, Japanese wood box. Quantité: 3 - 14cm., 5 1/2 in. Estimation 60,000 — 80,000 GBP

Exposition: Chugoku Toji Meihou Ten, Gotoh Museum, Tokyo, 1955.

Contrasting colours and longevity motifs are perhaps the two most characteristic features of Jiajing imperial porcelains. The juxtaposition of the imperial five-clawed dragon with sprays of longevity fungus, instead of the usual lotus scroll, symbolically links the ruler to long life, and reflects the Jiajing emperor’s fervent pursuit of longevity and attachment to Daoist practices promising the attainment of immortality. The auspicious message is here carried through even in the colour scheme, where yellow, the imperial colour, is surrounded by red, the colour of good luck. Combinations of two different glaze colours are characteristic of the Jiajing reign, but the present one is a rare case where the two colours are superimposed and had to be fired at different times and temperatures.

Jars of this type are held in important museum and private collections worldwide; see one in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, included in the exhibition, In Pursuit of the Dragon, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1988, cat. no. 44; one exhibited in Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, cat. no. 6; another, formerly in the Avery Brundage Collection and now in the in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated in He Li, Chinese Ceramics. The New Standard Guide, London, 1996, pl. 483; and a fourth example from the Meiyintang collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 706, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 7th April 2011, lot 66. A covered jar of this form and decoration, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain, London, 1978, pl. 145.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, London | 14 mai 2014http://www.sothebys.com/

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