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A BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT'-STYLE MEIPING AND COVER
- MING DYNASTY, LATE 15TH CENTURY

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT'-STYLE MEIPING AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, LATE 15TH CENTURY
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    $50,000 - $70,000

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Sale 2196
fine chinese ceramics and works of art
15 September 2009
New York, Rockefeller Plaza

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Lot Description

A BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT'-STYLE MEIPING AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, LATE 15TH CENTURY
Painted in underglaze blue of cobalt tone on one side with a scholar awaiting an approaching attendant carrying an album, all in a landscape framed by an upper border of clouds trailing from the reverse where a willow tree stands, with a band of leaf tips below and lotus-filled quadrilobed cartouches reserved on a diaper ground above, the truncated conical cover with a band of pendent leaf tips below fish scale pattern on the top surrounding the bud finial
16¼ in. (41.3 cm.) high, box

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Provenance

J.J. Lally & Co., New York.

Lot Notes

See a similar 'windswept' meiping, although without a cover, in the Benaki Museum, illustrated by L. Ashton and R.L. Hobson in the Catalogue of the Chinese Pottery & Porcelain, Athens, 1939, pl. XXIX, no. 398. Another smaller example (27.3 cm.), also lacking its cover, where the attendant carries a qin, was sold in these rooms, 19 March 2008, lot 574.

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