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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: AN EXTREMELY FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE JAR, GUAN, Circa 1500
AN EXTREMELY FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE JAR, GUAN, Circa 1500
Height: 35.5cm; 14 ins.
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Painted with a broad freize of mounted horsemen and their attendants approaching a dignitary in a large house, an acolyte pointing out the imminent arrival of the guests, the scene...
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Painted with a broad freize of mounted horsemen and their attendants approaching a dignitary in a large house, an acolyte pointing out the imminent arrival of the guests, the scene divided by swirling clouds, the whole between bands of waves that encircle the shoulder, interrupted with four horses, the neck painted with a trellis diaper. 

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For a similar jar painted in the 'windswept' style, see the British Museum, OA1937,7-16.79.

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