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Object 2011244

Jarlet

(Southeast) China, Zhangzhou (Swatow)

1570-1650

Height 85 mm (3.35 inch), diameter 85 mm (3.35 inch), diameter of rim 25 mm (0.98 inch), diameter of footring 70 mm (2.76 inch), weight 277 grams (9.77 ounce (oz.))

Jarlet with wide inset base, nearly vertical sides and an angled shoulder. Crackled glaze. Decorated in underglaze blue with four panels filled with a spotted deer, rocks and plants. Around the shoulder a ruyi head pattern border.

For similarly decorated jarlets, please see:

• Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, exhibition catalogue Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst und der Preussischen Akademie der Künste, (Würfel Verlag, Berlin, 1929), p.261, cat. 686. 
• Porcelain and the Dutch East India Company, as recorded in the Dagh-registers of Batavia castle, those of Hirado and Deshima and other contemporary papers 1602-1682, (T. Volker, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, E.J. Brill, Leiden 1954, reprint 1971), Pl. IV, cat. 5c.
• Zhangzhou (Swatow) Ceramics. Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries Found in Indonesia, (S. Adhyatman, The Ceramic Society of Indonesia, 1999), p.122, cat.150.

Condition: A chip to the inner footring, a firing flaw to the rim and to the body and at some places glaze flaws were the glaze did not catch on to the body of the jarlet during the firing process.

References: 

Berlin 1929, cat. 686 

Volker 1954, reprint 1971, Pl. IV, cat. 5c

Miedema 1964, cat. S87

Lunsingh Scheurleer 1977, cat. 53

Harrisson 1979, cat. 153

Adhyatman 1999, cat 150

Price: Sold.