Large jar

It is very exciting to publish this jar that has previously been misidentified as a Jiajing piece of the Ming dynasty. The solid and powerful quality of this piece places it as one of the most monumental three-colored glazed works of the Yuan dynasty. The sculpting style echoes that found on the stone sculpture and architecture of the time. The exterior openwork cannot be seen as there is a solid core inside. The craftsmanship seen here is similar to that found on the sancai tripod with shallow-relief design depicting dragons and phoenixes amid flowers which was found in the Yuan capital, Beijing (ZGMS Quanji 1988 vol. 3: pl. 60). The glazes, a turquoise-blue ground touched with yellow, brown, and lavender passages, were low-fired enamel polychromes that originated in the north. Noteworthy is the main tone of the turquoise blue enamel which was associated with the growing trend of fahua, the same family of three-color glazes with turquoise blue as the dominant tonality.