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well crafted with the shoulder gracefully curving to a square dome topped with an onion-shaped fi nial, painted in inky cobalt tones with curling vines issuing from the corners and sides of the shoulder and from the base of the fi nial, the fi nial painted blue with vertical white lines in reserve, all above a tapering base of circular form
Width 3 in., 7.6 cm
A cover of this form would have been used on a small square jar, such as the one in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated in William Bowyer Honey, The Ceramic Art of China and Other Countries of the Far East, London, 1945, pl. 93a. A jar of the same shape dating to the Yongle / Xuande period was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 30th October 2002, lot 275.
明十五世紀 青花方蓋