Scholars' Blue and White Jar

A connoisseur of fine ceramics, the scholar who once owned this jar would have proudly displayed this vessel among his prized objects, to showcase his vast knowledge of time-honored blue-and-white glazing techniques. An innovation of the more carefully delineated designs of the style, this Qing-dynasty jar is broadly brushed with expressive trees, evocative of the carefully groomed landscape of a scholar’s garden.