A Rare Painted Cizhou Baluster Jar, Guan

YUAN/MING DYNASTY

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A Rare Painted Cizhou Baluster Jar, Guan
Yuan/Ming Dynasty
The upper body freely painted in brown and reddish-rust on a white slip with three lozenge-shaped reserves representing a scholar in a landscape, a crane standing amidst grasses and a large flower spray, with decorative borders above and below, all under a clear glaze
13in. (34.3cm.) high

Provenance

O.M. Havermeyer, New York
William C. Luban, Florida

Literature

Exhibition of Early Chinese Pottery and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916, no. 108

The Chinese Collections, Norton Gallery of Art, 1972, no. 339.

Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition of Early Chinese Pottery and Sculpture, 1916

Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery of Art, on loan 1966-1979

St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg Museum of Art, on loan 1964-1966; and 29 October 1979 - 2 July 1981, no. tr4773.3

Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, on loan 1982 - March 1990.

Lot Essay

A jar of this very unusual shape and with a similar style of painting, including lozenge-shaped panels of scholars, was excavated in 1976 from a tomb in Yuncheng county, Shandong province, and is illustrated in Wenwu, 1988:6, pl. 7, no. 6. Compare, also, the almost identically painted jar in the Tokyo National Museum illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 78, no. 322 and another in the Freer Gallery of Art illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 9, no. 86.

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