A WUCAI BALUSTER JAR AND COVER

SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)

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A WUCAI BALUSTER JAR AND COVER
SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)
The jar is decorated in bright enamels with a scene of a gentleman visitor paying his respects to a lady on a garden terrace, the gentleman accompanied by one attendant with a canopy and another with a wrapped qin, all below a band of 'cracked-ice' and peony and camellia on the neck. The cover is decorated with three boys at play, and surmounted by a Buddhist lion-form finial.
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Christie's Amsterdam, 2 May 2007, lot 33 (part).

Lot Essay

The present vase is very unusual for the charming Buddhist lion which forms the finial of the cover. Although such Buddhist-lion-form finials became very popular in the 18th century, they were also made in the 17th century: see, for example, a hexagonal vessel and cover with a Buddhist-lion-form finial, dated to the Tianqi-Chongzhen periods (c. 1620-1644), illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2005, p. 404, no. 12:130.

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