Lot Essay
A fahua guan in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from the Salting Bequest, of slightly more slender form but identical decoration is illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Vicoria and Alber Museum, no. 158; a guan of this decoration with lotus lappets at teh shoulder in the Matsuoka Museum of Art is illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, pl. 61; and another with cloud-collar panels at the shoulder in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., is illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, La Porcelain Ming, the author also illustrated a bottle vase with cranes and lotus in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, pl. 98, and a fahua meiping with lotus in The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, pl. 97; another meiping with mandarin ducks swimming amid lotus is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 14, pl. 134