A GREEN-ENAMELED BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE

18TH CENTURY

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A GREEN-ENAMELED BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE
18TH CENTURY
The vase is decorated with two five-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl amidst clouds and flames below the bulbous mouth decorated with a scroll design and inscribed with an apocryphal Jiajing mark. The spreading foot is decorated in blue and white with crashing waves.
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high

来源

Robert West Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1950.

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拍品专文

For the Jiajing prototype for this vase, see the blue and white example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 35 - Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), Hong Kong, 2000, p. 87, no. 81. See, also, the blue and white vase of similar design and with an apocryphal Jiajing mark on the bulbous mouth, but of smaller size (20 cm.), from the Estate of Frances Leventritt, sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 2006, lot 306.

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