Lot 1036. A very rare green and red-enameled 'fish' jar, Ming dynasty, 16th century; 24.8 cm high, Japanese wood box. Price realised USD 32,760 (Estimate USD 30,000 – USD 50,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2023

Literature: Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Chûgoku bijutsu ten, series 5: Min Shin no bijutsu, Osaka, 1980, no.1-79.

Exhibited: Osaka, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Min Shin no Bijutsu, 21 October-23 November 1980.

Note: The combination of iron-red and green glaze was utilized primarily during the Jiajing period (1521-1567). According to Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt in Ming Porcelain, New York, 1978, p. 164, in her discussion of the 'Red-and-Green' Group, this palette would come to dominate polychrome porcelains, eventually leading to the appearance of famille verte during the second half of the seventeenth century.