A WUCAI BALUSTER JAR

TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1640-1660

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A WUCAI BALUSTER JAR
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1640-1660
Brightly painted with an overall pattern of three horses galloping above three tall mountain peaks and amidst various auspicious emblems, all reserved on a dense ground of swirling iron-red waves capped with green froth and dotted with plum blossoms
12 1/8 in. (30.7 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

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Similar examples of this type are illustrated by E.W. Van Orsoy de Flines in Guide to the Ceramic Collection, Museum Pusat Djakarta, 1969, pl. 60, no. 1816, and A. Du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, New Jersey, 1984, p. 194, nos. 5 and 6.

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