A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD WALL VASE

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A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD WALL VASE
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted on the lower gourd with Daoist sage and his attendants seated before a screen in a garden setting with pine trees and rockwork, the upper gourd with birds in various stages of flight amid peonies and trees, the splayed foot with demi-florettes and the waist with a classic scroll border, the straight neck painted with a full-faced dragon within a panel below a key-fret meander, the nianhao written to the reverse within a rectangular frame supported on a lotus blossom above a pierced aperture for hanging, all painted in attractive tones of cobalt with a violet tinge, glaze line to the back of the edge
12 1/8 in. (30.7 cm.) high, wood box

Literature

Krahl, Regina, 'The T.T. Tsui Collection of Chinese Ceramics', Orientations, December 1989, fig. 19, left, where it is illustrated with a wucai wall-vase, lot 1572 in this sale.

Exhibited

Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, November 1990-February 1991, Catalogue, no. 137, pp. 304-305.

Lot Essay

A similar vase from the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, no. 167, p. 167; another in the Musée Guimet is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collection, 1981, vol. 7, no. 82; a third example was included in the Marco Polo Seventh Centenary Exhibition, Venice, 1954, Catalogue, no. 676.

(US$70,000-80,000)

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