A LARGE FAHUA STORAGE JAR, GUAN

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A LARGE FAHUA STORAGE JAR, GUAN
late 15th/early 16th dynasty

Decorated in thread relief around the broad baluster body with peony sprays beside rockwork, a peacock, and a Buddhistic lion entwined in a ribbon suspending a cash, between floral lappets around the base and a beaded necklace suspending cash and lozenge motifs around the shoulder, below cloud-scrolls on the short lipped neck, glazed turquoise, cream and aubergine on a deep purple-blue ground, restored
13½in. (34.5cm.) high

拍品專文

Cf. the similar guan in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol.6, no.39; another, in the Eumorfopoulos Collection illustrated by R. L. Hobson, Catalogue vol.4, no.D158, pl.XXXII and exhibited, with cover, at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1910, Catalogue, no.G20; and another in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Catalogue, no.73, p.79