The jar has a spreading trumpet neck atop the compressed globular mid-section, all raised on a tall straight foot encircling the recessed base inscribed with the reign mark on the centre, wood stand, box.

Property from the Collection of Geronimo Berenguer De Los Reyes, Jr.

Provenance: Professor Ross Edman, sold at Sotheby's New York, 23 September 1995, lot 23.

Literature: Kerry Nguyen-Long, 'Ceramics from the Chinese Antique Collection of the GBR Museum', Arts of Asia, January-February 1998, fig. 2.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 26 November 2014