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A VERY LARGE and RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘SAGES’ JAR The present jar is likely based on earlier prototypes of the 15th
Wanli century, which were often decorated with figures in landscape and
The jar well-potted with an ovoid body surmounted by a waisted neck garden setting drawn from traditional literature and drama. These jars
with a lipped rim, painted in vibrant tones of cobalt-blue on the exterior were notable for the panoramic landscape, which was inspired by
with a fenced garden scenes enclosing scholars engaging in leisurely contemporary landscape paintings, and the continuity of the scene
pursuits flanked by attendants besides pine trees, bamboos, jagged was achieved by a line of curled clouds in the sky of the main register
rocks, large lingzhi and wispy ruyi clouds, all comprised between a of decoration; see a blue and white jar, similarly painted with scholars
band of blossoming lotus and Auspicious Emblems at the shoulder playing weiqi in a garden setting, illustrated in The Complete Collection
and ruyi lappets at the base. of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with
53cm (20 7/8in) high. Underglaze Red, Hong Kong, 2000, no.3.

£35,000 - 50,000 Compare with a related but much smaller blue and white jar, Jiajing
CNY280,000 - 390,000 mark and period, similarly decorated with scholars in a fenced garden,
which was sold at Christie’s New York, 17 September 2010, lot 1366.
明萬曆 青花高士圖罐

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