YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

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A PAINTED CIZHOU JAR
YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
The jar has a tapering, broad-shouldered body is decorated in brownish-black on a cream slip with three lobed panels, one containing a figure of a scholar, another containing a crane and another a lotus, all between wavy line borders at the shoulder, neck and foot. The rim and the interior are covered with a brown glaze.
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Christie's London, 11 and 13 June, 1990, lot 81.

Lot Essay

A similar Cizhou jar decorated with an almost identical figure of a robed scholar in a cartouche is in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, Vol. 9, Tokyo, 1981, no. 84. Another similar jar is illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 144, no. 139, and a further example is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, 1976, p. 217, no. 658, and subsequently sold at Christie’s New York, 17 March 2017, lot 1174.

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