A MING-STYLE YELLOW-GROUND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE DECORATED MEIPING

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

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A MING-STYLE YELLOW-GROUND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE DECORATED MEIPING
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely painted on the body with a composite floral scroll issuing four large flower-heads borne on leafy tendrils, between a band of upright lappets below and a ruyi frieze around the collar, the wide shoulders encircled by a lingzhi scroll, the short neck painted with floral sprays below a lipped rim, the base decorated with a band of plantain leaves above double-line borders, painted in attractive tones of cobalt with simulated 'heaping and piling' and reserved on lemon-yellow ground, the interior white, the base turquoise
8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 16 November 1988, lot 408.

It is unusual to find yellow-ground vases of this pattern with Qianlong marks. A similar meiping of a larger size (33 cm.), sparsely decorated around the body with floral sprays and fruiting branches was sold in these Rooms, The Imperial Sale, 28 April 1996, lot 56.

(US$16,000-24,000)

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