A MING CLOISONNE ENAMEL MEIPING AND COVER

16TH CENTURY

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A MING CLOISONNE ENAMEL MEIPING AND COVER
16th century
Decorated in predominantely turquoise and white on a purple ground with flowering lotus issuing from a pond with aquatic plants, between a serrated petal band around the foot and another around the rim, the domed cover with three large lotus blooms below a knop finial, pitting and some infills
8 in. (21.6 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A related example of the same date is illustrated by Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonn, Zrich, 1985, no.41. It is particularly interesting to note the similarities of the present lot to a fahua example, such as the meiping in the Cleveland Museum of Art (42.716), illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain, New York and Fribourg, 1978, no.97, p.122, as both techniques share similar constraints which gave rise to a shared aesthetic.

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