A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE FACETED VASE, YUHUCHUN PING

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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE FACETED VASE, YUHUCHUN PING
YUAN DYNASTY

The elegant bottle vase of octagonal section, the lozenge-shaped panels on the body decorated with sprigs of camellia, chrysanthemum and blackberry lily alternating between those of lingzhi, each enclosed by a single line border, flanked by leaf-shaped panels above and below containing bands of classic scroll, the slightly flared foot with overlapping triangular leaves, the neck with four stiff plantain leaves above a saw-tooth border, the faceted rim with eight pendent ruyi pointed inward, the blue of attractive purplish-blue tone with heaped and piled effect, the footrim unglazed (neck restuck, crack)--11½in. (29.1cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

This example compares very favorably to an excavated vase in the Dean County Museum, Jiangxi, illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, p. 25; compare also with another vase in the Umezawa Collection included in So Gen No Bijutsu, pl. 204

A related octagonal meiping-type vase is illustrated by Medley, Yuan Porcelain and Stoneware, pl. 38; compare also to a ewer from the Baoding hoard, pl. 39A. Two cut-down examples are also related: one is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. II, no. 574; the other by Feng Xianming, Wenwu, 1981, no. 6, pl. 72, fig. 10. Another one was sold in these rooms, 20th March 1990, lot 515 -

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