Lot description
A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI ‘FISH’ JAR AND COVER JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566) The globular jar is robustly potted and exuberantly painted around the sides with a continuous scene of eight golden carp depicted in different positions as they swim amidst floating aquatic plants above a band of lotus plants in shades of green and yellow and further water weeds in underglaze blue. The carp are set between a band of overlapping leaf tips in underglaze blue below and a band of petals lappets in yellow, iron-red and blue with blue outlines at the shoulder. The jar is completed with the original cover finely painted on the sides with lotuses dividing two pairs of golden carp, surmounted by a bud-finial decorated with swirling colours of green, red, yellow and blue, above radiating beaded tassels interlinked with various Daoist emblems. 18 1/8 in. (46 cm.), brocade box
