Lot 2. A white-glazed jar and cover, China, Yongle period (1403-1425). Estimate 20 000/30 000 €. Photo Nagel

The tapering body rising to a round shoulder and surmounted by a short wide neck with domed cover, covered overall in a thick opaque-white glaze stopping neatly at the foot revealing the unglazed footing. H. 29,5 cm. Good condition

A jar of this type, recovered from the Yongle stratum of the waste heaps of the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, was included in the exhibition Jingdezhen chutu Yuan Ming guanyao ciqi [Yuan and Ming imperial porcelain unearthed from Jingdezhen], Yan-Huang Art Museum, Beijing, 1999, cat. no. 95.

Compare also larger white-glazed jars of this form; one with cover was included in the Chang Foundation exhibition Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1996, cat. no. 85; two from the Idemitsu Museum of Art, are published in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pls. 614 and 615.

Nagel Auctions. "Asiatische Kunst", Sale 736, 06.05.2016