RARE JARRE EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC MARQUE ET ÉPOQUE JIAJING |

de forme pansue, peinte en différentes variations de tons bleu cobalt de paons perchés sur des rochers et parmi les pivoines, entre deux frises de pétales stylisés, marque à six caractères en bleu sous couverte à la base dans un double cercle 

There is a ca. 0.7 x 0.9 cm large shallow chip to the rim that was reattached. The rim slightly worn, a ca. 2 cm large firing imperfection under the glaze on the foot There is overall light wear to the surface, and some minute imperfections to the glaze.
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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 a special commission by the Jiajing court. A similar example was sold in our London rooms, 9th December 1986, lot 212, and another in Sotheby's New York,13th September 2016, lot 274.