Lot 1031
1031
A RARE SMALL CARVED QINGBAI TIXI-STYLE MEIPING
A RARE SMALL CARVED QINGBAI TIXI-STYLE MEIPING
A RARE SMALL CARVED QINGBAI TIXI-STYLE MEIPING
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EVELYN ANNENBERG JAFFE HALL
A RARE SMALL CARVED QINGBAI TIXI-STYLE MEIPING

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

Details
A RARE SMALL CARVED QINGBAI TIXI-STYLE MEIPING
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) high
Provenance
Tonying & Company, Inc., New York, 21 December 1949.
William B. Jaffe (1904-1972) and Evelyn Annenberg Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) Collection, New York, and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The shape and decorations on qingbai wares were often fashioned after contemporaneous silver wares, and the current meiping is no exception. A silver meiping carved with ruyi-shaped scrolls, excavated in a Southern Song hoard in Sichuan, for example, was possibly an inspiration for the design of the current vase. The silver vase is illustrated in S. Kwan, 'Tixi wenyang fenqi chuyi', Proceedings of Conference on Ancient Chinese Lacquer, Hong Kong, 2012, p. 65, fig. 11.

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