Chinese Art
Chinese Art
A RARE IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE ARABIC-INSCRIBED JAR, MING DYNASTY, ZHENGDE PERIOD 明正德 青花礬紅阿拉伯文罐
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A RARE IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE ARABIC-INSCRIBED JAR
MING DYNASTY, ZHENGDE PERIOD
明正德 青花礬紅阿拉伯文罐
the broad sturdily-potted baluster body rising from a spreading foot to a short straight neck with everted rim, painted around the body in iron-red with four diamond-shaped panels each enclosing an Arabic inscription surrounded by four ruyi cloud scrolls, separated by sprays of lotus flowers, all between bands of scrolling lotus in underglaze blue
Height 26.6 cm, 10½ in.
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Compare two blue and white hat stands bearing the same inscriptions in the collection of the British Museum, London, illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in The British Museum, London, 2001, pls. 8:8 and 8:9; and another, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum's exhibition The Enchanting Splendor of Vases and Planters: A Special Exhibition of Flower Vessels from the Ming and Qing Dynasty, Taipei, 2014, cat. no. II-02.