Zhangzhou (Swatow) wares 1570-1650 - Martavans & Jarlets - Jarlet

Object 2010207

Jarlet

(Southeast) China, Zhangzhou (Swatow)

1570-1650

Height 53 mm (2.09 inch), diameter 58 mm (2.28 inch), diameter of rim 22 mm (0.87 inch), diameter of footring 33 mm (1.30 inch), weight 84 grams (2.96 ounce (oz.))

Jarlet on a flat unglazed base with an angled shoulder and a short upright neck. Crackled glaze. Decorated in underglaze blue with two cartouches containing a flower separated by a scale or concentric waves pattern. Around the shoulder a lotus leaf pattern border.

These jarlets were used in former times as containers of medicine. (Adhyatman 1999, pp.28-29)

For similarly decorated jarlets, please see:

• The Ceramic Art of China and other Countries of the Far East, (W.B. Honey, Faber & Faber Limited, London 1944), Plate 147 (e).
• Zhangzhou (Swatow) Ceramics. Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries Found in Indonesia, (S. Adhyatman, The Ceramic Society of Indonesia, 1999), p.122, cat.150.

Condition: Two tiny glaze frits to the rim.

References:

Honey 1944, Plate 147 (e)

Miedema 1964, cat. S98

Harrisson 1979, cat. 164

Adhyatman 1999,  cat. 150

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