Une jarre en porcelaine polychrome - Dynastie Ming, marque et époque Jiajing (1522-1566)

A polychrome jar, Ming dynasty, mark and period of Jiajing (1522-1566).

de forme carrée, à décor bicolore rouge et vert sous couverte de quatre dragons dans les nuées, une frise formelle autour du col, nuages à l'épaulement et cartouches fleuris autour du pied, la base émaillée avec la marque en kaishu carrée Jiajing à six caractères dans un double cadre en bleu sous couverte, avec un couvercle en bois ajouré du XVIII^E siècle, et un socle en bois. 12.7cm, 5 in. Estimé: 40,000—50,000 EUR

PROVENANCE: C.T.Loo & Co, Paris.

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 839.

Chinese Ceramic Treasures, a Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including The Carl Kempe Collection. The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, p. 311, no. 1020.

CATALOGUE NOTE: A Jiajing jar of this form and design, in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, is illustrated in Ireneus Laszlo Legeza, The Malcolm MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1972, pl. CXIV, no. 305; and another with three cloud scrolls on each side of the shoulders is included in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1955, fig. 125.

Compare also a covered jar, formerly in the Franks collection and now in the British Museum, London, illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics, London, 2001, pl. 9:103, together with a larger related covered Jiajing jar, 9:104; and another, from the Winkworth collection, sold in our London rooms, 25^th April 1933, lot 383.

Sotheby's Paris. From Neolithic to Qing, Chinese Ceramics from Two Private Collections from two European collections. 12 Juin 2008