MING DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

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A RARE LARGE LONGQUAN CELADON CARVED BALUSTER JAR, GUAN
MING DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
Heavily potted and carved with a wide band of sweeping peony scroll between a band of slender petals below and a ruyi band on the shoulder which is applied with two finely molded lion masks, with a band of diamond-pattern diaper on the tapering neck, covered inside and out with a glaze of soft olive-green tone, the outside of the mouth rim unglazed
13¼ in. (33.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Charlotte Horstmann Collection; Christie's, Hong Kong, 26 September 1989, lot 556.

Lot Essay

This jar appears to be a rare example of its kind, transposing the formal decoration associated more with Yuan blue and white jars of this shape to a different technique of carved and molded designs. More often encountered are jars of a more squat form with ribbed sides or just a single carved floral scroll around the main body, without recalling so definitively their blue and white counterparts. See a blue and white jar sold in our London rooms, 6 June 1988, lot 149, decorated with a comparable peony scroll and applied monster masks to the sides. Compare also an ovoid celadon jar with the same very unusual ruyi border on the shoulder, illustrated by J. Ayers and R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, vol. I, London, 1986, p. 371, no. 537.

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