Provenance: Charlotte Horstmann Collection; Christie's, Hong Kong, 26 September 1989, lot 556.

Note: This jar appears to be a rare example of its kind, transposing the formal decoration associated more with Yuan blue and white jars of this shape to a different technique of carved and molded designs. More often encountered are jars of a more squat form with ribbed sides or just a single carved floral scroll around the main body, without recalling so definitively their blue and white counterparts. See a blue and white jar sold in our London rooms, 6 June 1988, lot 149, decorated with a comparable peony scroll and applied monster masks to the sides. Compare also an ovoid celadon jar with the same very unusual ruyi border on the shoulder, illustrated by J. Ayers and R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, vol. I, London, 1986, p. 371, no. 537. 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 22 March 2007