MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)

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A LARGE FAHUA BALUSTER JAR, GUAN
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
The sides decorated in white slip with two scenes of scholars on horseback accompanied by attendants in landscape settings, above a band of petal lappets encircling the foot and below a cloud collar decorated with lotus sprays, with vaporous clouds on the waisted neck, all in turquoise, yellow, yellowish-brown and white on a deep aubergine ground, the interior with a thin green glaze wash
15 in. (38.2 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Two other fahua baluster jars decorated with scholars include one formerly from the Manno Art Museum, decorated with two scenes - one of a scholar accompanied by his attendant, the other with a scholar admiring the landscape, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 28 October 2002, lot 535; and a second jar decorated with scholars on horseback, in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, illustrated in The 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Tokyo, 1981, no. 893.

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