A LARGE WUCAI JAR AND COVER

SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)

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A LARGE WUCAI JAR AND COVER
SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)
The baluster body is decorated with a bold design of squirrels clambering amidst leafy grapevines laden with multicolored fruit that rise from blue rocks at the foot and spread around the sides and shoulder below sprigs of rose and camellia separated by further blue rocks on the neck. The domed cover is decorated with three boys in a garden below the large finial.
19¾ in. (50 cm.) high

Provenance

Imperial Oriental Art, New York, November 1999.

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Lot Essay

A very similar wucai jar, but of smaller size (39.4 cm.), is illustrated in the S. Marchant & Son exhibition catalogue, Chongzhen-Shunzhi, Transitional Porcelain From A Private Collection, London, 2007, p. 23, no. 12, where it is dated to the Shunzhi period (1645-1661).

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