Lot 127. A Zhangzhou (Swatow) slip-decorated jar, Late Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century. Height 9.2 cm. Est: €2,000 - €3,000. Courtesy Lempertz

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

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.

Kunsthaus Lempertz KG, Asian Art I (China - Tibet/Nepal - India, South East Asia), June 24, 2021, Köln, Germany