TRANSITIONAL PERIOD

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A Wucai Sleeve Vase
Transitional Period
Painted with a scene of a woman seated on a balcony watching the departure of two scholars on horseback accompanied by their attendants, one holding a fan, one a cloth-wrapped qin and another a cloth-wrapped package, while an attendant on the balcony rolls a bamboo blind, with a fourteen-character inscription, all below foliate sprays on the waisted neck
17in. (43.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

Wucai-decorated sleeve vases are fairly rare. Compare the related blue and white sleeve vase in the Grandidier Collection, Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 7, no. 99.

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