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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT' JAR
MING DYNASTY, MID-15TH CENTURY
sturdily potted, the baluster body rising from a slightly splayed foot to a short tapered neck and rolled rim, skilfully painted in deep tones of underglaze blue in the 'windswept' style with three groupings of figures, one depicting two scholars playing weiqi, observed by an Immortal, possibly Dong Wang Gong, bearing a ruyi scepter, another of Xi Wangmu, the Queen Mother of the West, wearing long flowing robes and holding a basket of peaches, flanked by female attendants, and a third of an immortal accompanied by two attendants, one bearing a wrapped qin, together with a spotted deer grasping a lingzhi sprig, each scene framed by wispy clouds, all set between a band of upright lappets and a broad register of alternating shaped cartouches enclosing floral sprays and florets reserved on a diaper ground at the shoulder, the neck painted with a diaper border
Height 15 1/8 in., 38.3 cm
