A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, MEIPING

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A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, MEIPING
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted in underglaze-blue of good tone with simulated 'heaping and piling' around the body with three different flowering sprays above three different fruiting branches of lychee, peach and pomegranate, the high shoulder encircled by a band of lotus-petal lappets and the foot with a band of upright pointed leaves, both within double-line borders, the short waisted neck painted with four detached floral sprays below a lipped rim--13 in. (33cm.) high, box

拍品专文

A Qianlong-marked vase of this pattern, from the Edward T. Chow Collection, is illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, pl. 153; by Macintosh, Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, pl. IX, top left; and in Min Shin no Bijutsu, pl. 167. See also the example illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, pl. 63, one of the pair from the T. Y. Chao Collection exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, Catalogue, no. 79, and sold in Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 270 and 271.

For the fifteenth century prototype of this design, compare the vase included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Yongle ware, pl. 12