A FINE AND LARGE MING LONGQUAN CELADON MEIPING

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A FINE AND LARGE MING LONGQUAN CELADON MEIPING
15TH CENTURY

The vase is freely carved around the main body with flowering branches and bamboo sprays, in-between lingzhi scrolls at the waisted foot and a ruyi band, each ruyi-head enclosing a lotus bloom, on the sloping shoulder; decorated on the the short tapered neck with alternating camellia flower head and serrated leaf; the vase is entirely covered with a warm olive-green glaze except for the footring burnt orange in the firing
15 in. (38 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the present lot with an undecorated meiping in the Gotoh Museum, Japan, published with a 15th century date illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 14, no. 230.

The decorative theme and arrangment of the elements are both consistent with those found painted in underglaze-blue wares; cf. a blue and white meiping dated to the Yongle period with a cloud collar on the shoulder and a narrow band of scrolling foliage at the waisted foot, illustrated in Mingdai Qinghua Ciqi Fazhan Yu Yishu Zhi Yanjiu, p. 321, fig.39.
(US$40,000-50,000)

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