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

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT'-STYLE MEIPING
MING DYNASTY, LATE 15TH CENTURY
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    $40,000 - $60,000

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Sale 2297
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections
26 March 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza





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A BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT'-STYLE MEIPING
MING DYNASTY, LATE 15TH CENTURY
Painted in underglaze blue of cobalt tone on one side with a scholar awaiting an approaching attendant carrying a cloth-wrapped qin, 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
13 7/16 in. (34.1 cm.) high

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Lot Notes

Two meiping with similar decoration in the Shanghai Museum are illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, Shanghai, 1987, p. 144, pl. 142. and p. 146, pl. 144.

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