A FINE AND SMALL CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE JAR, Transitional, circa 1640 - 1660
Height: 14 cm; 5 1/2 ins.
Of ovoid form, delicately painted with a scene of a scholar at leisure in a terraced garden being presented with a goose by a small boy attendant, framed by stylised...
Of ovoid form, delicately painted with a scene of a scholar at leisure in a terraced garden being presented with a goose by a small boy attendant, framed by stylised rockwork, 'V' shaped grasses and cloud motifs between incised borders of continuous flower sprays at the shoulder and at the foot, a further border of upright leaves at the neck, the base glazed, the rim unglazed.
Literature
For a similar example of the shape, but with bird decoration, see also the Ashmolean Museum Catalogue Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger (pub. for the Ashmolean Museum and Sotheby Parke Bernet, by Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, London, 1981), plate 76, page 41.
