Lot 383
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON BALUSTER WINE JAR AND COVER

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A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON BALUSTER WINE JAR AND COVER
EARLY MING DYNASTY

The bulbous shoulder carved with four quatrefoil cartouches, each centered by a large character reserved on a diaper ground, and separated by a blossoming sprig, all above a band of upright petals, the domed cover also carved with four characters reserved on a diaper ground below a gilded bud finial, covered inside and out with a glaze of sea-green color
14½in. (36.8cm.) high

Lot Essay

The characters on the jar, Tian lu zhi mei, may be translated, 'The beauty of heaven's emolument'

Compare a related jar of similar size and shape, less finely molded on the sides with square panels of characters, alternating with panels of peach and pomegranate, and with a different cover with characters in the biscuit, in the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers in the Catalogue, vol. I, Geneva, 1974, A 108