A LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE LOBED JAR

细节

A LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE LOBED JAR
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

Strongly potted with ten lobes rising from a flat base, painted with alternating scenes of a scholar and an attendant, either seated lakeside under a willow tree, or standing on a hilltop beneath a pine tree, all below a ruyi cloud border and a band of demi-florettes at the mouth rim
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high, wood cover

拍品专文

Wanli-marked vessels of this type, lobed in as many as ten segments, are quite rare. A blue and white box and cover of similar form, painted alternately with ascending and descending dragons, from the Percival David Foundation, was included in the exhibition, Ceramic Evolution in the Middle Ming Period, London, 1995, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 59; and another of similar form, decorated in wucai with a comparable scene of scholars and attendants in landscape, from the Idemitsu Museum of Art, is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 14, pl. 263.