A PAIR OF SLIP-DECORATED BLUE-GLAZED JARS AND COVERS

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A PAIR OF SLIP-DECORATED BLUE-GLAZED JARS AND COVERS
LATE MING DYNASTY

Each of squat baluster form, one decorated with egrets and a lotus pond, the other decorated with cranes and clouds, the covers decorated with insects hovering above a blossom, all in white slip reserved on an inky blue ground, firing flaws to one
5in. (12.7cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Compare a jar of this type, decorated with characters and lotus sprays, included in the exhibition, Eastern Ceramics and other works of art from the collection of Gerald Reitlinger, Ashmolean Museum, July 18-September 1981, Catalogue, p. 26, no. 21