Lot Essay
Compare a closely related jar, without its cover, in the Halsey Collection, illustrated by R. L. Hobson in Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1976, p. 90, pl. 83
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A WELL-PAINTED MASSIVE BLUE AND WHITE JAR AND UNIQUE COVER
LATE MING DYNASTY
Of baluster form, elaborately painted with a dense scene on each side of pairs of confronted phoenix, one hovering above and the other perched in rockwork, all within a lush garden setting incorporating lotus ponds with mandarin ducks, and branches of prunus, peach, peony and rose, the foot encircled by a band of stylized lappets and the shoulder decorated with a broad band of shaped panels of flowers reserved on cell and chevron-pattern grounds divided by double ruyi-head bands, all below a band of further floral scroll encircling the neck, the decoration repeated on the low, domed cover below a pierced globular finial unusually applied with pairs of biscuit chilong crawling in and out of the cash-form openings
26¾in. (68cm.) high
LATE MING DYNASTY
Of baluster form, elaborately painted with a dense scene on each side of pairs of confronted phoenix, one hovering above and the other perched in rockwork, all within a lush garden setting incorporating lotus ponds with mandarin ducks, and branches of prunus, peach, peony and rose, the foot encircled by a band of stylized lappets and the shoulder decorated with a broad band of shaped panels of flowers reserved on cell and chevron-pattern grounds divided by double ruyi-head bands, all below a band of further floral scroll encircling the neck, the decoration repeated on the low, domed cover below a pierced globular finial unusually applied with pairs of biscuit chilong crawling in and out of the cash-form openings
26¾in. (68cm.) high