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Lot 856

A rare massive blue and white storage jar
Le dynasty, 15th/16th century

Fine Asian Works of Art
18 December 2017, 11:00 PST
San Francisco

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A rare massive blue and white storage jar

Le dynasty, 15th/16th century
Thickly potted and painted in dark cobalt underglaze with decorative bands that include peony flowers in profile on leafy tendrils around the neck and elaborately petaled peonies on leafy stalks around the body set between a leaf scroll meander above and a row of dragon heads and water spray below, the lotus petal lappets on the shoulder enclosing vegetal and geometric diaper patterns while tall jeweled lotus petals rise from the foot, the shoulder also applied with four pierced animal heads in high relief and the outside edge of the foot striped in ferruginous wash, the well-cut foot pad and recessed base showing the buff unglazed fabric.
33 1/4in (84.5cm) high

Footnotes

Published
James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, 'Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten Thousand Year Continuum,' Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p. 92, no. 29.

This jar appears to be the tallest of a group of large storage jars published in various public and private collections. For a discussion of the group, dated variously from the 15th to 16th centuries, and ranging in size from 36.7 to 66 cm, see Kerry Nguyen-Long, 'An Indonesian Collection: Vietnam's Painted Ceramics,' Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, pp. 95-102. Of interest to this lot are the two jars from the private Indonesian collection painted in a similar dark inky blue: the taller (no. 13, height 66cm, as 16th century) with unpierced animal head masks applied on the shoulder; the shorter, (no. 12, height 62.5cm, as 15th-early 16th century), with a band of iron brown wash drawn around the edge of the foot. The shorter jar, in turn, shared characteristics similar to shards excavated at the Ngoi and Chu Dao kiln sites. The same distinctive band of brown wash to the foot rim, peony blossoms and pierced animal head masks applied to the shoulder appear on a jar of larger size from the Ken Baars collection, illustrated in John Stevenson and John Guy, Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, 1997, p. 358, no. 331 (height 73cm, as 16th century. For a small blue and white lamp stand with dark cobalt decoration and iron brown band along the foot, part of the Hoi An/Cu La Cham shipwreck and matching wasters found at the Ngoi site, see Nancy Tingley, Arts of Ancient Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea, New York and Houston, 2009, pp. 288-289, no. 86c (as late 15th century).

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