Lot Essay
A similar jar is in the Grandidier Collection, Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 7, no. 104.
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TRANSITIONAL PERIOD
Details
A Wucai Baluster Jar
Transitional Period
Painted around the sides with birds in flight above and perched in the branches of a blossoming prunus tree, as well as fruiting branches and tree peony, all growing amidst blue, yellow and pale turquoise rocks, and reserved on a ground of iron-red cell diaper below bands of classic scroll and overlapping petals
11½in. (31.7cm.) high
Transitional Period
Painted around the sides with birds in flight above and perched in the branches of a blossoming prunus tree, as well as fruiting branches and tree peony, all growing amidst blue, yellow and pale turquoise rocks, and reserved on a ground of iron-red cell diaper below bands of classic scroll and overlapping petals
11½in. (31.7cm.) high