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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE SQUARE-FORM 'FLORAL' JAR by Anonymous

Anonymous

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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (11 Sep 2019)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Sep 11, 2019
Sotheby'sNew YorkA Noble Pursuit: Important Chinese and Korean Art from a Japanese Private Collection502
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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE SQUARE-FORM 'FLORAL' JAR
Artwork Description
Category

other

Dimensions

20.3 cm (8 in)

Provenance

Hirano Koto-ken, Tokyo, June 1982.

Exhibited

Chūgoku bijutsu ten series: Min Shin no bijutsu [Chinese Art exhibition series. The Art of the Ming and Qing dynasties], Osaka Art Museum, Osaka, 1980, cat. no. 1-60.

Literature

Sekai tōji zenshū/Catalogue of World's Ceramics, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1955, pl. 119.

Sekai tōji zenshū [Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 14, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 189.

Description

the squat baluster form surmounted by a straight neck and lipped rim, the exterior painted on each of the four sides with chrysanthemum, rose and peony blossoms potted alongside ornamental rocks in jardinières supported on rectangular stands within a garden, with butterflies in flight on either side, all above a lappet band at the foot and below a border of ruyi at the shoulder, the neck collared by a keyfret band, the base with a six-character reign mark within a double-square in underglaze blue, two Japanese wood boxes