A RARE FAHUA JAR (GUAN)

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3.000 € - 5.000 €

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incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, Ming dynasty, late 15th, or early 16th c.
H. 32,6 cm
The ovoid body, with flaring fot and short waisted neck, was made with double walls that merge into one at the neck, the outer one decorated round the centre with a figural scene carved in relief againsta pierced background. Shou Lao, the god of immortality, with tall forehead, is shown seated on a rock holding a gourd in his left hand and wearing a turquoise and green glazed robe, a yellow glazed deer is reclining behind him and a smoking incense censer in pale aubergine is placed at his right side. Approaching from the right are the Eight Immortals headed by Li Tieguai holding a gourd and a crutch, partly left in bis ciut or glazed in pale purple and yellow; He Xiangu in a similar glazed robe grasping a lotus flower and Zhongli Quan with a wide-open gown partly left in biscuit. The remaining five follow him: Zhang Goulao holding a bamboo tube drum and Han Xiangzi playing a flute all in similar glazed robes in pale purple and yellow. Cao Guoqiu holding a clapper, Lü Dongbin with a sword slung across his back and finally Lan Caihe carrying a flower basket. All is set against an openwork ground uneven hori zontal striations glazed turquoise glazed ground with yellow and pale purple glazed details. An openwork petal panel border with foliate motifsin purple, biscuit and yellow is round the foot, and round the shoulder is an openwork peony border with large blooms touched in aubergine, yellow and partly left in biscuit between leaves of turquoise and purple, with an incised band of spiralling lappets in aubergine and glazed biscuit above, as well as cloud motifs in slip relief, glazed in aubergine and yellow on the neck, all reserved on a turquoise-glazed ground. The rim is lined in green glaze and the inside is glazed in deep green. The base has a very low rounded footring and is wiped over with a thin layer of green glaze.
Collection of Juergen L. Fischer (- 2013), Baden-Baden, bought from Koller Zuerich, 15.5.1987, Lot 412
The renowned collector of Chinese porcelain Jürgen L. Fischer lived in Ascona, located in the Swiss Canton Tessin at Lago Maggiore and in his castle near Baden-Baden, Germany. The extensive size of the collection is largely owed to the family’s fortune, secured by pharmacist August Fischer and his revolutionary invention - the world’s first adhesive made from syn thetic resin, the famous “Uhu Alleskleber”, developed in 1932. Jürgen L. Fischer lived until 2013 and was an avid collector of Chinese porcelain whose astonishing taste encompassed a broad spectrum of types Published: Koller Zuerich, Sale 15. /16.5.1987, Lot 412, illustrated plate I Juergen L. Fischer 'Chinesische Kunst', Munich 1997, p. 141 A very similar jar, possibly from the same workshop, from the Collection of Anthony de Rothschild (1887-1961) is published in R. Krahl 'The Anthiny de Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics', Volume One, Eranda Foundation, 1996, no. 82, p. 146 and 147, Various jars of that type are known; see 'The 15th Anniversary Catalogue', Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1981 no. 892 and published Idemitsu Bijutsukan zhin zuroku. Chugoku toji 'Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection', Vol. 3, Tokyo, 1987, no. 683; René-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argencé 'Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection', San Francisco, 1967, pl. LXA; R.L. Hobson and A.L. Hetherington 'The Art of the Chinese Potter', London 1923, pl. CXI, from the Eumorfopoulos collec t ion and now in the City Art Gallery, Bristol - Partly restoration to glaze around the body and neck

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