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Object 2012535

Jarlet

(Southeast) China, Zhangzhou (Swatow)

1570-1650

Height 49 mm (1.93 inch), diameter 42 mm (1.65 inch), diameter of rim 17 mm (0.67 inch), diameter of footring 31 mm (1.22 inch), weight 51 grams (1.80 ounce (oz.))

Jarlet on a wide footring with an angled shoulder, a short upright neck with a flaring rim. Crackled glaze. Decorated in underglaze blue with two panels filled with a spotted deer, rocks, and plants, around the shoulder a lotus leaf-pattern border.

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Condition: Two firing flaws.

References:

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

Lunsingh Scheurleer 1982, cat. 12

Adhyatman 1999, cat. 150

Price: Sold.