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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER Jiajing four-character mark and of the period image 1
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER Jiajing four-character mark and of the period image 2
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER Jiajing four-character mark and of the period image 3
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER Jiajing four-character mark and of the period image 4
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER Jiajing four-character mark and of the period image 5
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER Jiajing four-character mark and of the period image 6
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER Jiajing four-character mark and of the period image 7
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER Jiajing four-character mark and of the period image 8
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER Jiajing four-character mark and of the period image 9
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Lot 21

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER
Jiajing four-character mark and of the period

Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art including the Francine and Bernard Wald Collection of Fine Snuff Bottles, Part I
17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER

Jiajing four-character mark and of the period
The ovoid body molded into four lobes and freely painted with an overall network of interlocking peony blossoms and radiating leafy foliage under a wide petal-form cloud canopy enclosing delicate stalks of lotus blossoms flanking a shou character below a neck with a composite scrolling band, the cover similarly molded with fu characters among peony blossoms under a petal-form band of gourds and leaves, the knob finial in form of a squirrel, the base with a four-character Jiajing reign mark.
8in (20.3cm) high jar; overall 9 5/8in (24.4cm) high

Footnotes

明嘉靖 《嘉靖年製》楷書款 青花纏枝牡丹《福壽》四稜蓋罐

Provenance:
Collection of Lolita Armour Higgason (1896-1976)
Sotheby's, Los Angeles, 24 June 1976, lot 624
Sotheby's, Los Angeles, 10 March 1977, lot 1525
Weisbrod & Dy Ltd, New York, 1977
Christie's, Hong Kong, 20 March 1990, lot 532

來源：
Lolita Armour Higgason (1896-1976) 舊藏
洛杉磯蘇富比，1976 年 6 月 24 日，拍品編號 624
洛杉磯蘇富比，1977 年 3 月 10 日，拍品編號 1525
紐約 Weisbrod & Dy Ltd，1977 年
香港佳士得，1990 年，3 月 20 日，拍品編號 532

Jars of this form are rare, and a product of the Jiajing emperor's fervent interest in immortality and alchemy as a way of ensuring his protection during his life. See a related example of a jar and cover sold at Christie's, New York, March 20, 1997, lot 86, from the Jingguantang collection, and illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 82. Another, without a cover, is in the Huaihaitang collection, and published in the catalog accompanying the exhibition Enlightening Elegance. Imperial Porcelain of the Mid to Late Ming, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2012, no. 39, pp. 180-181.

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