Zhangzhou (Swatow) wares 1570-1650 - Other wares

Object 2012573

Storage Jar / Martavan

(Southeast) China, Zhangzhou (Swatow)

1570-1650

Height 267 mm (10.51 inch), diameter 235 mm (9.25 inch), diameter of rim 85 mm (3.34 inch), diameter of footring 120 mm (4.72 inch), weight c.3.000 grams (109.00 ounce (oz.))

Baluster-shaped storage jar on low footring with a short neck, a rounded lip and four vertical strap-handles placed around the shoulder. Crackled glaze. Decorated in underglaze blue with two rather burlesque dragons between cloud-scrolls and segmented waves. On the shoulder a lotus leaf pattern border and around the neck swirls and dashes.

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Condition: Overall fine crazing and some firing flaws to the glaze, a glaze chip to the inner rim and one of the straps.

References:

Frank 1969, p.2

Miedema 1964, cat. S130

Woodward 1974, cat. 16

Harrisson 1979, cat. 53

Wiesner 1983, cat. 146

Adhyatman 1999, cat. 125

Price: € 799 Currency Converter