UNDER GLAZE-BLUE AND BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN
A Ming blue and white Wine
Jar, Guan, circa 1500, of stout baluster
form, pencilled with a white peony
meander in a pale-blue ground band,
between lappets and a bus-filled rye
border covering the shoulder beneath
repeated clouds on the wasted neck,
restored, 30cm.;
Two jars with similar borders, but lacking the blue ground central band, are [...]