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15 avril 2019

A rare large blue and white 'Shou' character jar, Wanli six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the

A rare large blue and white 'Shou' character jar, Wanli six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1573-1619)

Lot 212. A rare large blue and white 'Shou' character jar, Wanli six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1573-1619); 18 3/8 in. (46.8 cm) high. Estimate GBP 30,000 - GBP 50,000 (USD 39,150 - USD 65,250). © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.

The jar is heavily potted with a high-shouldered body and the exterior is decorated with a pattern of shou roundels reserved against a ground of scrolling lotus tendrils. The base is encircled with a band of ruyi-heads and the short neck is encircled by a pattern of conjoined lotus buds. 

Provenance: Formerly from a Private French Collection.

Note: Several Wanli-marked jars of this type are recorded including one with its original cover excavated in the Dongsheng district in Beijing in 1971, and published in Wenwu, 1972, no. 6, and illustrated on the inside back cover, fig. 3. See, also, the jar with short neck and more tightly painted shoucharacters with a very loose linked ruyi-head border at the base in the Ardebil Shrine Collection, illustrated by T. Misugi in Chinese Porcelain Collections in the Near East: Topkapi and Ardebil, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 207, A.117. Another Wanli-marked jar of this type in the collection of the Museum Pusat, Jakarta, is illustrated by Abu Ridho in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 3, Tokyo, 1982, no. 226. 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, London, 14 May 2019

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