THREE CHINESE JARS AND COVERS HAN-MING DYNASTY

THREE CHINESE JARS AND COVERS
HAN-MING DYNASTY

The largest with an iridescent green glaze, moulded with a band of animals to the shoulder, another moulded with lotus petals beneath a matt celadon glaze, the third with a pale Qingbai glaze, all with paper labels for Brodie & Enid Lodge, nos M150, C78, M124; two with paper labels for Bluett & Sons, the smallest with an Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition label, 1949 no.109, 12.5cm. (6).

Provenance: from the collection of Brodie & Enid Lodge, Flore House, Northamptonshire. The Brodie Lodge archive lists no.M150 as purchased from Bluett on the 16th November 1945 for œ15; C78 from Sparks on 11th February 1947 for œ38; M124 as a gift from Margaret Barton, Easter 1943. For details of this famous collection, cf. R Davids and D Jellinek Provenance p.298.