J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Art: The Szekeres Collection
March 13-29, 2019
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A SMALL MING BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN DOUBLE-GOURD ‘DRAGON’ VASE
Jiajing mark and of the period (1552 – 1566)
each spherical bulb decorated in rich dark underglaze cobalt-blue with four imperial five-claw dragons shown leaping and writhing amidst clouds, forming borderless medallions on a honeycomb diaper ground, the circular mouth and concave waist banded in white, the slightly recessed base inscribed with the six-character reign mark in underglaze-blue.
Height 4 1⁄4 inches (10.8 cm)
Provenance
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Paintings, 15 June 1983, lot 281
Ralph M. Chait Collection, New York
A very similar Ming Jiajing vase in the Percival David Collection, now in the British Museum, is illustrated by Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, revised edition, 2004, p. 24, no. 611.
Compare also the Ming Jiajing small vase of this form decorated with five-claw dragons striding amidst cloud motifs, without the honeycomb diaper ground, illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin quanji, Qinghua youlihong, zhong (The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red, II), Hong Kong, 2000, p. 90, no. 84.
明 「大明嘉靖年製」款 青花錦地團龍紋葫蘆小瓶
