Lot Essay
A jar with similar borders but a different scene was included in the Exhibition of Blue and White Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum, Tokyo, 1988, Catalogue, no. 48.
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15TH CENTURY
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A WELL-PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE JAR, GUAN
15th Century
The baluster body painted with the seven sages of the bamboo grove divided into three scenes illustrating various scholarly pursuits, including playing the qin, playing weiqi and the study of paintings, all framed within graceful bamboo and clouds and set between a lappet band below and a ruyi collar and ruyi border on the shoulder above, the waisted neck encircled by detached cloud scrolls
13in. (33cm.) high
15th Century
The baluster body painted with the seven sages of the bamboo grove divided into three scenes illustrating various scholarly pursuits, including playing the qin, playing weiqi and the study of paintings, all framed within graceful bamboo and clouds and set between a lappet band below and a ruyi collar and ruyi border on the shoulder above, the waisted neck encircled by detached cloud scrolls
13in. (33cm.) high