A YELLOW-GROUND 'LOTUS' DOUBLE-GOURD VASE JIAJING MARK AND PERIOD |

the compressed globular lower body rising through a waisted center to the pear-form tapering upper bulb, painted with bold iron-red lotus blossoming on a scrolling underglaze blue leafing stems, the waist with auspicious emblems and stylized clouds, all between double line borders and on a bright semi-translucent yellow enameled ground, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20^th May 1987, lot 425.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

Once broken into multiple pieces and restored, and with touch-ups or later enameling to the red lotuses.
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Compare similar Jiajing mark and period yellow-ground double-gourd  vases, one in the Ise Collection, illustrated in Sophie Makariou and Tetsuro Degawa, The Enchanting Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection, Osaka, 2017, cat. no 57; and one from the Ataka Collection, now at the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, illustrated in The Beauty of Asian Ceramics, Osaka, 2014, pl. 58. These examples differ from the present example in that they are painted with a peony scroll, have blossoms enameled on the waist, and scrollwork encircling the foot. Other examples can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 170, and in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 64,  Another example from the Edward C. Moore Collection, and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, painted with a lotus scroll entirely in underglaze blue on a yellow field, is illustrated op.cit., pl. 171.