AN UNDERGLAZED-RED DECORATED PEAR-SHAPED BOTTLE VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

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AN UNDERGLAZED-RED DECORATED PEAR-SHAPED BOTTLE VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
YUAN DYNASTY

Freely painted in a linear style with two stylized peony-heads borne on a single leafy branch of foliage encircling the body within borders of triple lines below the trumpet-shaped neck, below a band of four pendent lotus petal panels at the neck, covered in a blue-tinged glaze stopping above the orange-fired slightly spreading foot and covering the interior of the base (shallow flake to base of foot)
9½ (24cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare similar examples in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, rev. ed., 1989, no. 13, and again in Mayuyama Seventy Years, 1976, Vol. 1, no. 726. Also a vase in the Avery Brundage Collection, the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, painted with lotus scroll below a band of scroll-filled panels which was included in the exhibition, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), Cleveland Museum of Art, October-November 1968, Catalogue, no. 167; another painted with chrysanthemum, in the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Vol. 5, no. 74, and again in T.O.C.S., 1969-1971, no. 135.

(US$11,000-13,000)

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