A blue and white globular jar, guan - Yuan/Early Ming Dynasty

Painted around the body with a row of three qilins in pursuit above a stylised floral scroll, the foot with a row of stylised lappets (small chip). 22cm (8½in) wide. Estimate: £3,000 - 5,000 - Unsold.

Footnote: The result of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication Limited, no. P205b27, is consistent with the dating of this lot.

A similar jar is illustrated, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, Volume 67. 2002-2003, pg.55, in the lecture Ceramics from South of the Clouds: Ceramics from Yunnan, where Cyril Beecher discusses this rare group of underglaze-blue porcelains from Yunnan province.

Bonhams. Fine Asian Art, 6 Nov 2006.  New Bond Street