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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE
‘FIGURAL’ JARS
MING DYNASTY, CHONGZHEN
PERIOD
each with an ovoid body set over a straight
foot and rising to a short, upright neck, painted
around the exterior in washy cobalt tones with
figures in a cloud-filled mountain landscape,
one with a scholar directing an attendant to
carry the qin to the tree perched on a rocky
outcrop, the other with an immortal reclining
on a rootwood raft adrift in a heavenly sea,
a double gourd suspended from one of the
branches, all below band at the shoulder finely
incised with floral scroll (2)
Height 5½ in., 14 cm
$ 20,000-30,000
明崇禎 青花人物圖蓮子罐一對
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