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A RARE AND LARGE ‘FAHUA’ ‘BAJIXIANG AND DIGNITARIES’
JAR AND COVER, GUAN
First half of the 16th century
Of compressed globular form, the central band decorated with
scholars on horseback followed by a boy-attendant carrying a qin,
amid gnarled pine trees, clouds and rocks, all between the Eight
Buddhist Emblems on the shoulder and a band of lappets around the
waisted base, all picked out in white, purple and turquoise on a dark
blue ground.
44cm (17 1/4in) high (2).

£30,000 - 50,000
CNY260,000 - 440,000

十六世紀上半葉 琺華釉八吉祥紋高士騎馬罐

The present jar is a classic example of the vibrant Fahua-decorated
vessels manufactured at Jingdezhen during the mid Ming period.
These wares were produced using raised slip lines to produce small
areas in which differently coloured, low-fired, glazes could be applied.
Fahua vessels were usually decorated with detailed designs of figures
which would have been more time-consuming to make than large-
scale simplified floral motifs.

Compare with a similarly decorated turquoise-glazed Fahua jar, circa
1500, in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Musuem, illustrated
by J.Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, 1980, no.55. Another example, decorated with the Eight
Immortals on a turquoise-glazed ground, is in the Freer Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C., acc.no.F1907.75. Finally, a turquoise-glazed Fahua
jar, Ming dynasty, decorated with figures on horseback, was sold at
Sotheby’s New York, 2 March 2011, lot 99.

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