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TWO TRANSITIONAL WUCAI BALUSTER JARS AND COVERS
CIRCA 1640
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TWO TRANSITIONAL WUCAI BALUSTER JARS AND COVERS
circa 1640
One painted and enamelled with a group of contending archers aiming at a phoenix painted on a screen, before a scholar and his wife standing on a terrace by their chairs, and young ladies watching in the background, all below prunus branches and rockwork on the neck, the cover with boys at play between rocks; the other with a similar scene with young men presenting themselves before the seated scholar, both with cracks and rim chips
14½in. (37cm.) high (2)
circa 1640
One painted and enamelled with a group of contending archers aiming at a phoenix painted on a screen, before a scholar and his wife standing on a terrace by their chairs, and young ladies watching in the background, all below prunus branches and rockwork on the neck, the cover with boys at play between rocks; the other with a similar scene with young men presenting themselves before the seated scholar, both with cracks and rim chips
14½in. (37cm.) high (2)