MING DYNASTY, CIRCA. 1500

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a carved fahua jar, guan
Ming Dynasty, circa. 1500
Of broad baluster shape, the body carved and pierced with Shoulao and his deer together with other Immortals standing in debate below pine clouds, the shoulder with a peony frieze below a lotus petal collar and cloud-scrolls around the waisted neck, the waisted base with lotus panels, variously glazed deep violet, blue, turquoise, aubergine and yellow, the interior glazed green, rim bruise
12½ in. (32 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

This jar may be compared with several other reticulated fahua jars with similar decoration, one illustrated by Trubner in the Handbook of the Far Eastern Collection, Royal Ontario Museum, pl. 87; and another by d'Argence in the Brundage Collection Catalogue, pl. LX(A). A similar jar with the Eight Immortals standing on waves, was sold in our New York Rooms, 30 May 1991, lot 287. Compare also the jar illustrated in Ceramic Art of the World: Ming Dynasty, vol. 14, 1976, pl. 137.

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