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AN UNUSUAL MING REVERSE-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE JAR, GUAN
LATE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
The well-potted, globular body well-painted with a wide band of composite foliate scroll, the leafy tendrils curved around to enclose large blossoms, including lotus and chrysanthemum, with smaller blossoms borne on subsidiary tendrils, all reserved in white on a blue wash ground bordered by narrow linear bands, with a band of upright leaves below and a band of wind-tossed waves on the shoulder above, the short, slightly tapering neck encircled by a band of keyfret below the lipped rim, the flat foot rim and slightly recessed base unglazed and burnt orange in the firing, some restoration--14½in. (36.8cm.) high
