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Lot Essay
Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 April 1996, lot 377.
Similar examples of juban ping are illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, fig. 233 and Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, Tokyo, 1983, Vol. 15, pp. 34-35, fig. 27, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. An example from the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, vol. II, 1994, p. 177, pl. 818; one from the Beijing Palace Museum is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 138, pl. 121; another from the Percival David Foundation, in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha series, 1982, vol. 6, col. pl. 52; from the Baur Collection illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, Geneva, 1972, Vol. III, no. A 302; from the Chang Foundation, illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taiwan, 1990, p. 270, fig. 115; and one as part of a set from the Jingguantang Collection, 3 November 1996, lot 557.
Some scholars refer to the moulding as lotus petals, heban, rather than chrysanthemum, juban; for a discussion cf. J. Ayers, 'The 'Peachbloom' wares of the Kangxi Period (1662-1722)', Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 64, 1999-2000, p. 37.
Similar examples of juban ping are illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, fig. 233 and Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, Tokyo, 1983, Vol. 15, pp. 34-35, fig. 27, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. An example from the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, vol. II, 1994, p. 177, pl. 818; one from the Beijing Palace Museum is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 138, pl. 121; another from the Percival David Foundation, in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha series, 1982, vol. 6, col. pl. 52; from the Baur Collection illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, Geneva, 1972, Vol. III, no. A 302; from the Chang Foundation, illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taiwan, 1990, p. 270, fig. 115; and one as part of a set from the Jingguantang Collection, 3 November 1996, lot 557.
Some scholars refer to the moulding as lotus petals, heban, rather than chrysanthemum, juban; for a discussion cf. J. Ayers, 'The 'Peachbloom' wares of the Kangxi Period (1662-1722)', Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 64, 1999-2000, p. 37.