A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE SMALL JAR, GUAN

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A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE SMALL JAR, GUAN
XUANDE

Boldly painted around the body with a continuous abstracted lotus meander between a border of sprigs around the base and looping stems forming panels around the broad neck, the blue of pale and dark tones with 'heaping and piling'
4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) high (2)

Exhibited

Lot Essay

The guan belongs to a small group of early Ming jars painted in a bold style with scrolling bands and borders formed by thick stems and thick petals. Compare a jar illustrated in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Catalogue, vol. I, pl. 24 and a jar sold in our New York Rooms, 29 November 1984, lot 170.

(US$8,000-10,000)

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