CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, MARQUE A SIX CARACTERES ET EPOQUE WANLI (1573-1619)

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RARE ET IMPORTANT VASE MEIPING EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, MARQUE A SIX CARACTERES ET EPOQUE WANLI (1573-1619)
De forme meiping, le corps décoré en bleu de cobalt de deux grands phoenix, l'un, tête vers le haut, le plumage de la queue dessinant des arabesques, le deuxième, tête vers le bas, la queue déployée en courbes harmonieuses, entourés de nuages, le pied et l'épaulement ornés de lambrequins, la marque à six caractères de l'Empereur Wanli écrite en ligne en-dessous du col
Hauteur: 51,3 cm. (20¼ in.)

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A RARE FINE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'PHOENIX' MEIPING VASE
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

Lot Essay

Such large blue and white meiping are either decorated with phoenix or dragons. Jessica Harrison-Hall notes in Ming Ceramics that 'eight blue and white meiping of this form, still with their covers, were discovered in the Wanli emperor's tomb, the Ding Ling. They were among the relatively few porcelains discovered there when the tomb was investigated'.
A similar vase is illustrated in The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 8, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Kodansha 1982, pl. 246 ; another one was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 2005, lot 646.
For similar large vases decorated with dragons, see He Li, Chinese Ceramics, The New Standard Guide, pl.428 ; and the meiping sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 2 May 1994, lot 641.

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