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A RARE MING MOULDED AND RETICULATED FAHUA JAR, GUAN

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A RARE MING MOULDED AND RETICULATED FAHUA JAR, GUAN
15TH/16TH CENTURY

The jar is of a reticulated baluster form, the outer wall carved with the Eight Daoist Immortals in various pursuits divided by lion masks, each suspending tassels below ruyi lappets on the broad shoulder (chips to foot)
11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Stephen Junkunc, III, sold in our New York Rooms, 21 September 1995, lot 192.

Lot Essay

Kindly donated by a private collector.

Compare a pierced fahua vase with a different neck decorated in a similar style with an immortal landscape divided by similar lion masks in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, 1996, no. 487, where it is dated to the Chenghua-Zhengde period. Other reticulated jars decorated with the Eight Immortals are illustrated in the Idemitsu Museum 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Catalogue, 1981, no. 892; and by H. Trubner, Handbook of the Far Eastern Collection: Royal Ontario Museum, pl. 87.

(US$5,000-8,000)

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