Lot 287
287
MING FAHUA AND GLAZED STONEWARES
A FAHUA RETICULATED JAR, GUAN

Details
A FAHUA RETICULATED JAR, GUAN
MING DYNASTY

The sides decorated with the Eight Immortals standing against a background of clouds, their faces left in the biscuit, with a band of petal lappets pierced with inverted lotus buds below and a band of cranes in flight amidst chrysanthemum scroll above, all below a narrow lappet border on the shoulder and a band of detached clouds on the neck, glazed in cream, yellowish-amber, aubergine and turquoise on a purplish-blue ground, the interior glazed green, inner wall broken--13 1/2 in. (34.3cm.)

Lot Essay

Other reticulated fahua jars decorated with the Eight Immortals, but with the addition of Shoulao, are illustrated in the Idemitsu Museum 15th Anniversary Catalogue, 1981, no. 892, no. 892; by Trubner in the Handbook of the Far Eastern Collection, Royal Ontario Museum, pl. 87; and by d'Argence in the Brundage Collection Catalogue, pl. LX(A)