Beschreibung:

An Early Blue and White Jar, Guan Yuan dynasty, 14th century The tapering body painted in blue outline and pale blue wash with a wide frieze of peony meander, the scrolling, leafy branch bearing six blossoms depicted from various angles, above a narrow diaper band and a band of petal lappets rising from the base, and below a cloud collar decorated with phoenixes and peacocks in flight amidst flowering stems on the shoulder which is also applied with a pair of blue animal-mask handles, all below a further petal-lappet band, the waisted neck painted with a band of crashing waves and the exterior of the flat mouth rim encircled by key fret, neck restored 15in. (38.1cm.) high, box