A Zhangzhou (Swatow) slip-decoarted jar. Late Ming dynasty, 16/17th century

A Zhangzhou (Swatow) slip-decoarted jar. Late Ming dynasty, 16/17th century

Decorated in slip on a blue ground with cranes and lotus flowers.
Height 9.2 cm

明晚期十六/十七世紀 漳州窯鹤荷池纹罐

來源：德國魯爾 區私人收藏，藏品集於二十世紀六十年代，1967年購於德國柏林 Heinrich Peters 藝術行，此後由家族傳承

Provenance

Private collection, Ruhr area, assembled since the 1960s, acquired in 1967 at Heinrich Peters, Berlin, and thence in the family by descent

Literature

Compare a similar jar ob brown grwound in Hong Kong Museum of Art, South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery, Hong Kong 1979, Nr. 151 and The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Transitional Wares and their Forerunners, Hong Kong 1981, no. 216