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AN IMPORTANT EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE VASE, MEIPING
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    HK$5,000,000 - HK$7,000,000
  • ($648,065 - $907,290)

Sale Information

Sale 2711
the imperial saleimportant chinese ceramics and works of art
27 May 2009
Convention Hall Buy Catalog




Lot Description

AN IMPORTANT EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE VASE, MEIPING
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1465)

Painted around the body in cobalt of deep blue tone with a hibiscus scroll with spiky and feathery foliage, the flowers with pomegranate-shaped centres, between a band of upright overlapping plantain leaves around the foot and similar pendent leaves around the shoulder, the neck with flower sprays below the everted mouth
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high, Japanese wood box


明宣德 青花纏枝蓮紋梅瓶 雙圈雙行六字楷書款

此器1990年3月22日於香港佳士得拍賣，拍品522號。1995年於臺北歷史博物館舉辦之《清翫雅集收藏展》中展出。

此器形制端莊挺秀，嬌小玲瓏，有別於其他豐肩斂足的梅瓶。紋飾承前朝之風，清心明快，流暢生動，甚為珍罕。

臺北故宮博物院藏一件同樣在器肩及足牆環繪蕉葉紋，腹繪四朵纏枝蓮花，圈足梯級形內凹，雙圈內書雙行「大明宣德年製」楷書款。

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Exhibited

National Museum of History, Taipei, The Exquisite Chinese Artifacts - Collection of the Ching Wan Society, 1995, no. 95

Lot Notes

Previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 20 March 1990, lot 522.

The meiping as a form is relatively rare in the Xuande period, and the painted designs are largely carried over from the previous Yongle reign. The present shape and design is very rare, the body is much more oviform with a narrower shoulder, while the mouth and neck are smaller in relation to the body. See a related vase with a similar design, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II (part 1), CAFA, Hong Kong, 1963, pls. 2-2a; the overlapping leaves and lotus scroll on the main body are very similar, including the stepped base enclosing the reign mark.

A similar example from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Palmer was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 17 January 1989, lot 572.

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