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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘SCHOLARS’ JAR
MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD

robustly potted, the ovoid body rising from a waisted base and
ared foot, painted with a scene of scholars engaged in various

activities including playing and observing a game of chess and
playing the qin, all set in a fenced garden with a spotted deer,
below a band of oral reserves on a scale-pattern ground at
the shoulder and on the neck, the base encircled with upright
lappets
Height 16 in., 40 cm
$ 15,000-25,000

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