A CHINESE COPPER RED-ENAMELLED BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS POND' JAR

Probably Ming Dynasty

或為明 青花紅料蓮池罐

The ovoid body rising to a broad shoulder and gently-tapering neck, painted in copper-red enamels around the centre of the body with a continuous scene depicting geese swimming through the pond weed-strewn waters of a murky pond, with large lotus flowers rising up from the depths, all above a band of petal lappets in underglaze blue, the shoulder decorated with large lotus flowers and peonies issuing from scrolling leafy stems beneath a band of overlapping ruyi heads, the neck with sprays of lingzhi, the base unglazed,

29.5cm high

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