Lot 120. Property from an Private UK Collection. A wucai 'crane' jar, Ming dynasty, Jiajing six-character mark within a double circle in underglaze blue and of the period (1522-1566). Height: 18.8 cm. Price realised EUR 119,700 (Estimate EUR 10,000 – EUR 15,000) © Christie's Images Ltd 2025

Provenance: A Jiajing mark and period wucai jar (20.6 cm; high) with a similarly colourful lappet band encircling the base was sold at Christie's London, 6 November 2012, lot 298. Zhou Feng in "Woven Colours in China/The Five Colors in Chinese Culture and Polychrome Woven Textiles", 2010, published in Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings, 63, references a 16th century wucai jar with the same design and colour palette.
Compare with a slightly larger wucai jar (19.3 cm high), similarly decorated with flying cranes and Daoist emblems and also bearing a Jiajing mark, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing (accession no. Gu145723).

Christie's. Art d'Asie, Paris, 10 June 2025