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Lot Essay
A closely related example incised with phoenix in flight reserved on a copper red ground from the Tamato Bunkakan Museum is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 13, Tokyo, 1981, p. 231, fig. 135. Compare also with two other related vases decorated in a similar banded format, one with floral scroll in the Percival David Foundation illustrated by R. Scott in Chinese Copper Red Wares, London, 1992, pl. 5, and again in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 13, no. 77; the other with an incised rabbit from the Palace Museum, Beijing collection is illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua da cidian, Shanghai, 1995, p. 343, no. 586.
The decorative technique of reserving the incised elements in white on a red ground is also seen on other vessels, such as the lidded jar from the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Qing-zheng (ed.), Qinghua Youlihong, Hong Kong, 1987, fig. 24. This painting format continued into the early Ming period and examples of these have been excavated from the Yongle stratum at Jingdezhen. For a Yongle pear-shaped ewer and a bowl see Chang Foundation, Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1996, p. 278, fig. 108, and p. 312, fig. 126 respectively.
The decorative technique of reserving the incised elements in white on a red ground is also seen on other vessels, such as the lidded jar from the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Qing-zheng (ed.), Qinghua Youlihong, Hong Kong, 1987, fig. 24. This painting format continued into the early Ming period and examples of these have been excavated from the Yongle stratum at Jingdezhen. For a Yongle pear-shaped ewer and a bowl see Chang Foundation, Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1996, p. 278, fig. 108, and p. 312, fig. 126 respectively.