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)
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)