A BLUE AND WHITE 'EIGHT TREASURES' JAR MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAJING

of shouldered form, the sides painted with the bajixiang supported on the heads of a continuous lingzhi fungus scroll with curling foliage, the shoulders with a collar of hexagonal latticework and the foot with a classic scroll border, between double and single line borders repeated on the short neck, the underglaze-blue of brilliant purplish colour

Sotheby's London, 23rd May 1972, lot 154.
Collection of Sir Esler Dening, G.C.M.G.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th May 1981, lot 710.

There is a 5 cm discoloured firing crack on the luting line and a polished 2 mm rim frit. The cobalt has smudged a little near the base. The actual colour is slightly greyer and a touch less purple than in the catalogue illustration.
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Another jar of this pattern in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, Universirty of Durham, is illustrated by Legeza in the Malcolm MacDonald Collection cat., pl. LXIV, no. 185.