A 'Fahua' Wine Jar (Guan) Ming Dynasty

the globular jar with swelling shoulder, above a waisted foot, the body decorated with applied motifs and glazed in turquoise, aubergine and mustard-yellow on a dark-blue ground with four scholars in a landscape, the reverse with the arrival of two additional scholars with two attendants before a curtained platform and scrolling clouds, the collar with the bajixiang ('Eight Buddhist Emblems') enclosed within ruyi-head lappets, the foot encircled by a border of modified lotus petals, wood cover and stand (3)

neck lost, edge inpainted, two restored cracks descending from neck, scattered abrasions and scratches to extremities of surface
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For two wine jars with related decoration and borders, see Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Art Museum, nos. 13:20 and 13:21, pp. 418-419.