• Dimension: Height: 12 1/2 in (31.8 cm) Diameter of top: 5 in (12.7 cm)
• Estimate From: $15000
• Estimate To: $30000

The high-shouldered ovoid jar brightly enameled around the body with sinuous five-clawed dragons amidst green, yellow and red fire and clouds above crashing waves and mountains, all flanked between a lappet border the foot, and a band of phoenix in flight amidst dense leafy stems around the shoulder, the short neck decorated with a band of key-fret pattern and inscribed a eight character mark reads as made in the third year of Tianqi Reign by Tang. Ming Dynasty Tianqi period.

來源：洛杉磯資深藏家提供 Provenance: Private Collection, Los Angeles
此件明天啟五彩海水江崖龍鳳紋罐造型飽滿敦實，肩部繪有鳳紋，腹部則繪海水江崖龍紋，寓意福山壽海。翻滾的海浪，拍打岩石，飛騰其間的五爪龍，形象生動傳神，霸氣凌然。整體以紅、黃、綠三色為主，色彩熱烈，把整個器物烘托得異常艷麗華美。此罐畫工精細，包漿古潤，品相完整，流傳至今已有三百八十餘年，實为明晚期五彩瓷中的精品。頸部書有“天啟三年唐氏製造”八字楷書款，更加難得。可參考耿寶昌先生著<<明清瓷器鑒定>>關於明天啟年瓷器款識介紹的部分。