Lot Essay
A jar with the same leaping horse decoration, but a band of lappets above the base, is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, p. 149, no. 781.
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LATE 17TH CENTURY
Details
A wucai baluster jar and cover
Late 17th Century
The sides freely painted with three horses, two in yellow and one in aubergine, leaping between underglaze-blue rocks rising from the base and reserved against a ground of iron-red swirls scattered with blossoms and several of the babao, all below a band of upright petal-tips encircling the neck, the cover decorated en suite, rim crack
38 cm. high, wood stand
Late 17th Century
The sides freely painted with three horses, two in yellow and one in aubergine, leaping between underglaze-blue rocks rising from the base and reserved against a ground of iron-red swirls scattered with blossoms and several of the babao, all below a band of upright petal-tips encircling the neck, the cover decorated en suite, rim crack
38 cm. high, wood stand
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Please note that there are retouches to the green enamels on this jar.