Description
Description: Chinese Cizhou storage jar of the Ming dynasty, decorated with a freely drawn wild goose in flight, painted with brown and yellow washes, with clouds at the sides. On the back, a probably water plant with the same colors. What is distinctive of this jar is the particular purplish color of the background glaze.
Dating: Ming period, 16th century.
Size: 25.5 cm high
Provenance: Antiquarian market
References: Of these rare jars, an identical one, commented by Prof. Ye Zhemin, is in the collection of the Chinese Museum of Parma (what a coincidence, at only 50 km from here) and another one is in the Kempe collection, see the first two images of reference. A jar of this type with different subject is in the British Museum and another one in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, see the following two pictures of reference. The one at the BM seems strangely dated to the Qing dynasty. But a definitive, very interesting study, made by Ching-Ling Wang, Curator of the Rijksmuseum, with the proper dating is illustrated in the last three pictures.
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