A Chinese Porcelain Blue and White Gourd Shaped Jar with Cover

Pumpkin shaped vessel with cover, porcelain with underglaze blue and crackled ground, decorated with Chinese seal script (篆書) characters, the stem handle on the cover with the Chinese character 福 (blessing), with an apocryphal six character Xuande mark within two blue circles to underside.

3 1/2 in. 5 1/2 in. diameter

Property from the Estate of Joan Huntley, sold by the Ackland Art Museum to benefit the Robert and Joan Huntley Endowment Fund

Good estate condition with fine crazing to the glaze.