A MOLDED AND RETICULATED FAHUA JAR

Details

A MOLDED AND RETICULATED FAHUA JAR
MING DYNASTY

The inner, turquoise-glazed body encased within an outer shell pierced and molded in high relief with the Eight Immortals, each shown holding his attribute while standing atop a cloud of vapor rising from the band of waves below and separated by a lion mask suspending a tasseled chain decorated with one of the Daoist Emblems, all below a ruyi collar alternately decorated with clouds, cranes in flight and the sun or the moon shown against clouds and rays, and with a narrow band of ruyi heads below the short neck and everted rim, all in purple, turquoise, ochre and cream, the interior glazed turquoise (restored foot rim chips)
11¼in. (28.5cm.) high

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

Other reticulated fahua jars decorated with the Eight Immortals are illustrated in the Idemitsu Museum 15th Anniversary Catalogue, 1981, no. 892; by Trubner in The Handbook of the Far Eastern Collection, Royal Ontario Museum, pl. 87; and by d'Argencé in the Brundage Collection Catalogue, pl. LX(A). See, also, the related jar, with a chrysanthemum scroll band instead of a ruyi collar, sold in these rooms, May 30, 1991, lot 287