A MASSIVE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' MEIPING

PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN FROM A EUROPEAN FAMILY COLLECTION

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A MASSIVE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' MEIPING
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE ON THE SHOULDER AND OF THE PERIOD

The sturdily potted body painted to the sides with two leaping five-clawed horned dragons reserved on a ground of lotus meander between stiff lotus lappets and ruyi-head borders at the shoulder and base--25in. (60.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections Kodansha Series, vol. 9, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, pl. 246 for an example with descending phoenix; also Lion-Goldschmidt Ming Porcelain, pl. 178 for a smaller Wanli-marked example in the Kunstidutrimuseet, Copenhagen. Three similar vases were found in the Emperor Wanli's tomb in 1958, one with a Jiajing mark, illustrated by M. & C. Beurdeley, Chinese Ceramics, pl. 100

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