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Lot Essay
This jar is a classic example of the vibrant fahua-decorated vessels made at Jingdezhen in the mid-Ming period. The technique of using raised slip lines to produce cloisons, in which differently coloured, low-firing, glazes could be applied was one that may have originated at the kilns making architectural ceramics in North China.
The Eight Daoist Immortals appear on a small number of late 15th and16th century fahua vessels, sometimes, as on the present example, accompanied by Shoulao the Star God of Longevity. A similar example with cover decorated with the same subject, from the E.T. Chow Collection, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3118; another decorated with scholars between ruyi collars and upright lappets, bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917, is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, collection number: 17.120.149.
The Eight Daoist Immortals appear on a small number of late 15th and16th century fahua vessels, sometimes, as on the present example, accompanied by Shoulao the Star God of Longevity. A similar example with cover decorated with the same subject, from the E.T. Chow Collection, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3118; another decorated with scholars between ruyi collars and upright lappets, bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917, is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, collection number: 17.120.149.