YUAN DYNASTY, MID-14TH CENTURY

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A BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
Yuan Dynasty, mid-14th century
The vase is freely painted in cobalt blue around the body with pairs of mandarin ducks swimming amid lotus flowers and aquatic plants, between narrow bands of classic scroll and larger lotus panels, the slender trumpet neck is decorated with upright plantain leaves above a band of key-frets, the flared mouth and foot with further decorative borders, rim restored
95/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Messrs. Eskenazi, London

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Lot Essay

Compare similar vases painted with lotus and mandarin ducks but with different decorative borders, one excavated in Banggai, Central Sulawesi, is illustrated in Adhyatman, Antique Ceramics Found in Indonesia, Jakata, 1981, pl. 235; another is illustrated in Toji Taikei, vol. 41, Tokyo, 1974, p. 113, fig. 69; and a third, with a similar main design but a peony scroll on the neck, in the Capital Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Shoudu Bowuguan Zang Ci Xuan, Beijing, 1991, pl. 57.

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