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Object 201057

Jarlet

(Southeast) China, Zhangzhou (Swatow)

1579-1620

Height including the steel neck 85 mm (3.35 inch), diameter 77 mm (3.03 inch), diameter of mouthrim 20 mm (0.79 inch), diameter of footring 60 mm (2.36 inch)

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

This jarlet probably had an Indonesian provenance and was collected by a (former) owner when he or she lived in the Dutch East Indies. The mounts, enhancing the shape, indicate the value such pieces had in local Indonesian communities, where they were often regarded as pusaka, holy and venerated heirlooms. (Jörg 2003/1, p.65)

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: One circular and two striped firing flaws to the wall, a chip to the inner footring.

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

Jörg 2003/1, p.65

Price: Sold.