The baluster jar is carved and moulded with scrolling flowering peonies above stiff lotus petals, the cover similarly decorated with flat waved foliate border and mushroom finial. The whole is covered in an even sea-green celadon glaze.

Literature: Anthony du Boulay, The Duberly Collection of Chinese Art at Winchester College (Winchester, 2019), p. 18

Exhibited: Possibly the Oriental Ceramic Society loan exhibition of Lung Ch’uan and Related Celadons at the V&A in 1921-22; Oriental Ceramic Society, London, Celadon Exhibition, 1947, no. 166 (plate 12 in the exhibition catalogue)

Provenance: Bequeathed as part of the Duberly Collection, 1978; purchased by Major Montagu and Lady Eileen Duberly from Bluett & Sons, 10 June 1953 (£75); purchased by A. L. Hetherington from Bluett & Sons, 6 May 1942 (£28); acquired by Bluett & Sons from the collection of Major Richard Pope-Hennessy, March 1942

Location: Treasury, Gallery 2