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Lot Essay
No other example with exactly this selection and distribution of Yuan decorative motifs appears to have been published.
A closely related example, but with a classic scroll band below the main floral border and lotus flowers within the panels around the base from the Shanghai Museum is illustrated by Wang Qing-zheng, Underglaze Blue and Red, Shanghai Museum, 1987, p. 36, col. pl. 20. Compare also the example in ibid., p. 37, col. pl. 21 with a similar peony band and lotus petals around the base containing simple circles and dots, as in the present example. Compare also, the pair illustrated in Chinese Cermaics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, vol. II, London, 1986, p. 409, col. pl. 583, where the main band and shoulder decoration is similar, but a classic scroll and flaming pearl motifs are used around the lower body. The latter pair are similar, except for the presence of lotus flowers rather than flaming pearls around the base, to the example from the Sir Harry and Lady Garner Collection illustrated by Margaret Medley, Yüan Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1974, pl. 46.
Three examples with comparable peony bands and similar motifs in the petals around the base are illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 4, col. pl. 50, from the Iran Bastan Museum, Teheran; vol. 10, col. pl. 45, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and vol. 11, col. pl. 13, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Another was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 25 October 1993, lot 717.
A closely related example, but with a classic scroll band below the main floral border and lotus flowers within the panels around the base from the Shanghai Museum is illustrated by Wang Qing-zheng, Underglaze Blue and Red, Shanghai Museum, 1987, p. 36, col. pl. 20. Compare also the example in ibid., p. 37, col. pl. 21 with a similar peony band and lotus petals around the base containing simple circles and dots, as in the present example. Compare also, the pair illustrated in Chinese Cermaics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, vol. II, London, 1986, p. 409, col. pl. 583, where the main band and shoulder decoration is similar, but a classic scroll and flaming pearl motifs are used around the lower body. The latter pair are similar, except for the presence of lotus flowers rather than flaming pearls around the base, to the example from the Sir Harry and Lady Garner Collection illustrated by Margaret Medley, Yüan Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1974, pl. 46.
Three examples with comparable peony bands and similar motifs in the petals around the base are illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 4, col. pl. 50, from the Iran Bastan Museum, Teheran; vol. 10, col. pl. 45, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and vol. 11, col. pl. 13, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Another was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 25 October 1993, lot 717.