A RARE WUCAI OVOID JAR

QING CERAMICS

Details

A RARE WUCAI OVOID JAR
KANGXI MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The sides decorated with a scrolling, leafy stem in underglaze blue bearing large peony blossoms in pale yellow, turquoise and aubergine glaze and iron-red surrounded by a dense ground of pale green leaves and darker green tendrils, repeated in a narrow band on the shoulder, between lappet and leaf-tip borders in green and iron-red encircling the foot and the short, tapering neck, all within underglaze-blue line borders--9½in. (24.1cm.) high

Exhibited

Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 84

Lot Essay

For similar style peony blossoms painted in the same palette see a dish dated to Shunzi/Early Kangxi included in the exhibition, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1992, Catalogue, no. 84. Very similar decoration can also be seen on a pair of baluster vases from the Collection of Edward R. Bacon, published by John Getz in the Catalogue of Chinese Art Objects, New York, 1919, p.III, no. 26