Lot 127. A reticulated fahua 'Immortals' baluster vase, 15th-16th century; 32.6cm high. Sold for €20,480. © Bonhams 2001-2024

Provenance: Koller, Zürich, 15 May 1987, lot 412
Formerly in the collection of Jürgen L. Fischer (d. 2013), Baden-Baden (by repute).

Published: Koller, Zürich, Sale 15/16.5.1987, Lot 412, illustrated plate I
Jürgen L. Fischer, Chinesische Kunst, Munich, 1997, p. 141.

Note: A very similar jar, possibly from the same workshop, from the Collection of Anthony de Rothschild (1887-1961), is published in Regina Krahl, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics, vol.1, Eranda Foundation, 1996, no.82, pp.146 and 147. Various jars of this type with openwork design are known, see, for example, Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, vol.3, Tokyo, 1987, no.683, or René-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argencé, Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1967, pl.LXA; and R.L. Hobson and A.L. Hetherington, The Art of the Chinese Potter, London, 1923, pl.CXI.

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