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2373 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT JAPANESE
COLLECTION
2374 2373
A WUCAI JAR
234 TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1650

The jar is sturdily potted with wide tapering
sides and is decorated with Buddhist lions
amidst leafy foral scroll.
9Ω in. (24.5 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

$3,000-5,000

EXHIBITED:

On loan: Kyoto National Museum, c. 1965-
2014.
明末清初 1650年前後
五彩瑞獅穿花紋罐

ANOTHER PROPERTY
2374
A SILVER-MOUNTED BLUE AND WHITE
BOTTLE
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1635-1640

The compressed, globular body is decorated
with a scene of an offcial accompanied
by attendants greeting a kneeling farmer
holding a hoe and pointing towards his
water buffalo, while another grazes in the
foreground, all below a band of fower scroll
on the shoulder and two stylized, leafy stems
on the neck that rises to a rounded collar
decorated with lotus scroll. The neck has a
sterling silver mount and there is a sterling
silver stopper.
13¡ in. (34 cm.) high

$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE:

Private American collection, acquired in the
1950s-60s.
明末清初
1635-1640年前後
青花「堯訪許由」圖瓶