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• From the collection of Colin and Freda Wharf, by direct descent from their son.
• Sold by Marchant, 5th March 2018 (stock no. R9904).
• From an English Private Collection.
• This type of doucai chrysanthemum jar is believed to be modelled after Chenghua, Ming dynasty prototypes. No exact Chenghua original appears to be recorded, however the design is well-known from Chenghua bowls; see a doucai bowl excavated from the waste heaps of the Ming imperial kilns at Jingdezhen included in the exhibition, A Legacy of Chenghua, The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1993, cat. no. C119. Compare also a Chenghua jar and cover with a related design in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji. Gongyi meishu bian: Taoci [Complete series on Chinese art. Arts and crafts section: Ceramics], Shanghai, 1988-91, vol. 3, pl. 96.
• A pair of similar doucai jars and covers from the Qianlong period is illustrated in Tianjin shi yishu bowuguan cang ci/Porcelains from the Tianjin Municipal Museum, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 177; another pair is published in Min Shin no Bijutsu [Ming and Qing art], Tokyo, 1982, pl. 170; and a single jar and cover is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 24.
  A similar jar and cover from an old Japanese collection was sold by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in their auction of Important Chinese Works of Art, 7th April 2015, lot 3713, total price realised HKD 2,000,000; another pair with covers was sold by Christie’s Hong Kong in their auction of Imperial Chinese Porcelain: Treasures from a Distinguished American Collection, 27th November 2013, lot 3029, total price realised HKD 6,040,000.
• Included by Marchant in a full page advert of CANS year book 2018.

Condition: excellent.