Lot 296. A rare green, ochre, turquoise and cream glazed 'fahua' jardinière, Late Ming Dynasty, 16th-first half 17th century; 41.3cm (16 1/4in) diam. Estimate 1 500 € - 2 000 €. Photo Fabrice Gousset.

The slightly everted walls applied around the exterior with demi-lune pie-crust ochre glazed scrolls, each centred with a high relief cream-glazed lotus flower crowned by a green and ochre-glazed bud emerging over the rim, alternating with cosmic green and ochre-glazed 'cosmic' mountains, all reserved against a green ground, the brown-glazed interior with a cream and green-glazed central aperture and foot, the underside green-glazed and incised with eight sections, all raised on eight turquoise-glazed foliate supports.

Provenance: Jean-Pierre Rousset, Paris (1936-2021).

Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris. The Robert and Jean-Pierre Rousset Collection of Asian Art: A Century of Collecting - Part 2. Paris, 26 october 2022