Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CHINESE IMPERIAL DOUCAI JAR AND COVER, GUAN

SIX CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD 1723-35

The ovoid body gently tapering at the foot, delicately painted in underglaze blue with two scaly yinglong (winged dragons) in flight amongst scrolling clouds, a band of scalloped lappets to the shoulder and foot embellished with doucai enamels, the circular flattened cover with a single yinglong within concentric bands, the base with a paper label for Bluett & Sons, London, 11cm across, 10.4cm high. (2)

Provenance: a British private collection. Purchased from Bluett & Sons, London, 1st May 1946, for £9:10.

Cf. The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, p.233, no.214, where a comparable jar and cover from the Yongzheng reign is illustrated. A jar without a cover in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum is illustrated in A Hougron's publication, La Céramique chinoise ancienne, p.212. For a tian jar dating to the Chenghua period after which this example is modelled, see the Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, The Legacy of Chenghua, Imperial Porcelain of the Chenghua Reign Excavated from Zhushan, Jingdezhen, p.310, no.C111; another from the Percival David Foundation is illustrated by R Scott & S Pierson in Flawless Porcelains: Imperial Ceramics from the Reign of the Chenghua Emperor, p.36, no.17. For an example with a cover sold at Sotheby & Co, see The Collection of W W Winkworth Esq, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Bronzes, 12th December 1972, lot 119, purchased by H Moss for £580.

來源：英國私人收藏，1946年5月1日以£9.10的價格購於Bluett & Son, London

北京故宮博物館有一例雍正仿成化紋飾的鬥彩應龍蓋罐刻字比較，見《故宮博物院文物珍品大系——五彩·鬥彩》香港，2008，頁233，圖214；另見英國維多利亞及阿爾伯特博物館藏一例同一紋飾無蓋鬥彩應龍罐，詳見A Hougron's publication著,《 La Céramique chinoise ancienne》,頁212.

W W Winkworth Esq家族亦舊藏一件鬥彩應龍紋罐（蓋可能後配），後於蘇富比拍賣行于1972年12月12日售出·編號119.當時由Hugh Moss以£580的价格购得。