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A LARGE FAHUA RETICULATED JAR
AND COVER

MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

The reticulated jar is decorated around the mid-
section with a continuous scene of scholars in a
landscape amidst pines and clouds, above a band of
petal lappets encircling the foot and below a band of
peonies on the shoulder, and with vaporous clouds on
the waisted neck. The cover is decorated with fower
sprays beneath a biscuit fnial of a seated sage.
17Ω in. (44.4 cm.) high

$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher (d. 1917) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
accessioned in 1918.

A fahua jar with very similar subsidiary borders, but
with a main band of the Eight Immortals around
the sides, is illustrated by E. Gorer and J. F. Blacker,
Chinese Porcelains and Hard Stones, vol. II, London,
1911, pl. 195. See, also, the fahua jar with a broad
band of scholars in a landscape similar to that on the
present jar, and also with similar subsidiary bands,
from the Ira and Nancy Koger Collection, sold at
Christie’s New York, 19 September 2006, lot 238.

明十五/十六世紀 琺華 透雕 山水人物圖蓋罐

來源
Isaac D. Fletcher 伉儷珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1918年。

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