A BLUE AND WHITE 'PEACOCK' JAR JIAJING MARK AND PERIOD

of well-potted baluster form, painted in varying tones of cobalt-blue with peacocks amidst rockwork and flowering peony plants all set between rows of lappets, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle

Meriden Hall, Warwickshire, England (until 1948).

1 cm discolored haircrack running down from the rim. Some typical minor surface scratching to the glaze overall including some long fine scratches to the base.
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An identical jar in the British Museum is illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pl. 9:48 and again in John Addis, Chinese Porcelain from the Addis Collection, London, 1979, no. 22 where the author relates the design to an order from the Jiajing court cited in Stephen Bushell's translation of the Tao Shuo for "kuan decorated with peacocks and mutan peonies". A similar example was sold in our London rooms 9th December 1986, lot 212.