A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, MEIPING

WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AROUND THE RIM AND OF THE PERIOD

Details

A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, MEIPING
wanli six-character mark around the rim and of the period
Painted in a bright cobalt-blue with a continuous landscape with figures among rocks, pine trees and terraces, above a narrow band of scattered blossoms and a row of geometric lappets at the foot, the shoulder with a ruyi-lappet collar enclosing floral sprays, below the mark and the narrow neck with flaring mouth, rim chips infilled
20 in. (52 cm.) high, fitted box

Provenance

Herbert Hoover

Literature

W.E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol.1, pl.141
H. Trubner, American Exhibitions of Chinese Art, p.102

Exhibited

Los Angeles County Museum, 14 March - 27 April 1952, no.294.

Lot Essay

A similar vase is illustrated in Mayuyama, op.cit., Tokyo, 1976, vol.I, p.318, no.951, and in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, pl.719; a second was published by J. A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, London, 1981, pl.86, no.29.402, also illustrated by T. Misugi, Chinese Porcelain Collections in the Near East, Topkapi and Ardebil, 1981, p.216, no. A.127, together with another vase of almost identical design to the present lot on p.217, no. A.128. A slightly smaller vase of very similar design and with a cover, is in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book V, Hong Kong, 1963, pl.2, p.24. Compare also the unmarked example with cover from the Meiyintang Collection, Catalogue, vol. II, no.725, p.101. A smaller meiping of almost identical design was sold Christie's Tokyo, 16 & 17 February 1980, lot 804.

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