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A FINE AND RARE MING FAHUA JAR, GUAN

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A FINE AND RARE MING FAHUA JAR, GUAN
CIRCA 1500

The high shouldered body decorated in moulded and carved with slip, the details finely incised to depict cranes in flight and at rest amid a blooming lotus pond with with crashing and swirling waves above the waisted base and two tiers of beaded pendents suspending auspicious emblems and flowers, the lipped rim above a vertical neck with scrolling clouds, above a ruyi border, all on a rich indigo ground picked out in turquoise, yellow and white glaze, the interior turquoise (two short foot cracks)-- in. ( cm.) high

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A fahua guan in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from the Salting Bequest, of slightly more slender form but identical decoration is illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Vicoria and Alber Museum, no. 158; a guan of this decoration with lotus lappets at teh shoulder in the Matsuoka Museum of Art is illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, pl. 61; and another with cloud-collar panels at the shoulder in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., is illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, La Porcelain Ming, the author also illustrated a bottle vase with cranes and lotus in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, pl. 98, and a fahua meiping with lotus in The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, pl. 97; another meiping with mandarin ducks swimming amid lotus is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 14, pl. 134

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