An extremely rare and fine blue and white jar with fruit branches, China, underglaze blue six-character mark and period of Chenghua. Photo Nagel Auktionen

No jars of this type appear to be preserved in the Palace collections either in Beijing or Taipei, although the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, contains a small Chenghua jar of slightly different form, painted with garden flowers, which was included in the Museum's exhibition Ming Chenghua ciqi tezhan , Taipei, 1976, cat.no.163; and a few other blue and white Chenghua jars, all deocrated with flowers, are recorded by Julian Thompson in the exhibtion catalogue The Emperor's broken China: Reconstructing Chenghua porcelain , Sotheby's London, 1995, catalogue p.118 and p.125 (nos.B2-B5)

Restored. H. 7,7 cm. Estimate 20 000  /30 000 €

Nagel Auktionen. Asian Art, 2013/05/10. http://www.auction.de