A WUCAI BALUSTER JAR AND COVER TRANSITIONAL

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A WUCAI BALUSTER JAR AND COVER TRANSITIONAL

The sides painted in rich tones with a woman overseeing a group of boys at play, perhaps in a New Year's celebration, on a garden terrace, all below a band of iron-red mottling on the shoulder and a band of flower sprigs and rocks on the neck, the cover with three boys at play amidst rocks below a knop finial, kiln fault, crack, rim chips and fritting
16¼in. (41.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare a similar jar depicting the same theme in the Ohlmer Collection, Roemer Museum, Hildescheim, illustrated by Wiesner, Chinesische Porzellan, Mainz am Rhein, 1981, no. 115, pp. 178-179, and col. pl. p. 210; another included in the exhibition, Transitional Wares for the Japanese and Domestic Markets, S Marchant & Son, London, June 11-30, 1989, Catalogue, no. 113; and one in the sale of the inventory of Yamanaka & Company, Inc., New York, 1943, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 776