Lot 2816. A very rare large blue and white 'Figures in windswept landscape' jar, Ming dynasty, mid-15th century; 36 cm high. Price realised HKD 378,000 (Estimate HKD 280,000 – HKD 350,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.

Provenance: Sold at Sotheby’s London, 13 June 1989, lot 211
Sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 November 2009, lot 319.

Note: The present jar belongs to a group of large blue and white jars and meiping dating to the mid-15th century, sometimes known as ‘interregnum period’, depicting figures in landscapes and garden settings in the so-called ‘windswept style’, featuring billowing clouds and blown trees. Compare with a similar scene on a jar illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 14, Japan, 1976, pl. 35; a similar jar from the Manno Art Museum, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 532; and another jar with a similar scene sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 7 July 2003, lot 659. Compare also to a meiping with a similar scene, exhibited at No Doubts, Christie’s Shanghai, 6-19 December 2014, catalogue no. 20.

Christie's. IMPORTANT CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, Hong Kong, 30.11.2023