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5375 | Chongzhen period, Ming dynasty A BLUE AND WHITE ‘FIGURES AND STORY’ JAR

A BLUE AND WHITE ‘FIGURES AND STORY’ JAR

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Size: W10.5cm

Signed and dated: Chongzhen period, Ming dynasty

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Final Price: RMB 220,000


Chongzhen 12Years Zhongxiajidan Ten-Character Mark
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The small jar is potted with a compressed globular body resting on a short strait foot and surmounted by a short constricted neck, the exterior superbly painted in tones of cobalt blue with figural stories depicting a young scholar accompanied with general and attendant, greeting a young lady stepping off clouds, horses, trees and rocks, formed a narrative figural picture, all below a border of the double ring on the short neck, the foot with double ring in pale underglazed-blue, the base with a ten-character accurate dating mark, translated as “The Prosperous First Day of Summer in the Twelfth Year of Chongzhen Period” .