An Early Blue and White Jar, Guan

YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

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An Early Blue and White Jar, Guan
Yuan dynasty, 14th century
The tapering body painted in blue outline and pale blue wash with a wide frieze of peony meander, the scrolling, leafy branch bearing six blossoms depicted from various angles, above a narrow diaper band and a band of petal lappets rising from the base, and below a cloud collar decorated with phoenixes and peacocks in flight amidst flowering stems on the shoulder which is also applied with a pair of blue animal-mask handles, all below a further petal-lappet band, the waisted neck painted with a band of crashing waves and the exterior of the flat mouth rim encircled by key fret, neck restored
15in. (38.1cm.) high, box

拍品專文

Compare the similar jar of this type with a band of lotus scroll above the cloud collar rather than the band of petal lappets on the present jar, in the collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated in Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty (1279-1368), The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968, no. 156, where it is noted that engraved on one side in the area of the cloud collar are "the characters Nan-Kung (South Palace), probably a reference to the later storage place for the jar in a palace". See, also, another jar of this type, but missing its neck, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1986, vol. II, p. 503, no. 587.