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A POLYCHROME ENAMELLED JAR
Qing dynasty, circa 1660-1670
26 cm high
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 4879.
The decoration – painted in overglaze black, green and red enamels with the addition of few underglazed blue lines near the base and mouth – shows on the body a series of ruyi-head shaped medallions with chrysanthemums reserved on a geometrical ground of hesagonal motifs, the shoulder with a frieze of half-lozenges.
The style of the decoration on this jar, with large floral motifs, was appreciated especially in the South-east Asia (C. Shimizu (edited by), L’Odyssée de la porcelaine chinoise. Collections du Musée national de Céramique, Sèvres et due muse national Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2003, p. 179, n. 124, for a jar with a similar arrangement of the decoration in the Musée national Adrien Debouché).
