The broad-shouldered jar is decorated in brown and reddish-rust on a white slip with three shaped panels enclosing a scholar in a riverscape, a floral spray, and a crane standing amidst grasses respectively, all above a band of upright lappets and beneath a band of leafy floral scroll.

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13¹⁄₄ in. (33.7 cm.) high

O. M. Havemeyer, New York.
William C. Luban (1900-1993), Florida.
Christie's New York, 16 September 1999, lot 309.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catalog of an Exhibition of Early Chinese Pottery and Sculpture, New York, 1916, no. 108.
Norton Gallery of Art, A handbook of the Chinese collections in the Norton Gallery and School of Art , West Palm Beach, 1972, no. 339.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition of Early Chinese Pottery and Sculpture, 1916.
On loan: Palm Beach, Norton Gallery of Art, 1966-1979.
On loan: St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg Museum of Art, 1964-1966; and 29 October 1979 - 2 July 1981, no. tr4773.3
On loan: Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1982 - March 1990.

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A jar of this shape with a similar style of painting, including lozenge-shaped panels of scholars, was excavated in 1976 from a tomb in Yuncheng county, Shandong province, and is illustrated in Wenwu, 1988:6, pl. 7, no. 6. An almost identically painted jar in the Tokyo National Musuem is included in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics,Tokyo, 1965, p. 78, no. 322, and another in the Freer Gallery of Art is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 9, no. 86.