LARGE FAHUA TURQUOISE-GROUND BALUSTER JAR (GUAN), MING DYNASTY, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

LARGE FAHUA TURQUOISE-GROUND BALUSTER JAR (GUAN), MING DYNASTY, EARLY 16TH CENTURY, with slip-trailed decoration, the neck with a cloud clusters, the shoulder with an ornate foliate-ruyi pendant band, the rounded body showing a landscape scene showing three scholars in a mountain landscape with cloud swirls and trees, one scholar contemplating a bonsai tree, another riding a donkey followed by an attendant, the third figure leading a saddled horse, 32cm high Provenance: Bonhams London, 10th November 2003, lot 328. Exhibited: The World in Colours, Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition, 2006, no.25. Note: a very similar jar from the Tokyo National Museum, which is designated Important Cultural Property, was exhibited at Chinese Ceramics from Japanese Collections, Asia House Gallery, New York, 1977, no.49.