15TH/16TH CENTURY

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A FAHUA VASE, MEIPING
15th/16th Century
With rich cobalt blue ground, the decorative motifs on the vase are outlined in low relief slip lines in fahua style, on the shoulders a cloud-collar, each panel containing a floral spray, the main decorative band with a scholar accompanied by his servant carrying a qin in a terraced garden, around the lower part of the vase petal panels containing stylised pendants.
11¾ in. (30 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A slightly smaller meiping with similar decoration to the current vase was excavated in 1980 in Jiangxi province. It too has floral sprays set within the cloud collar around the neck and has figures in a garden landscape as its main decorative band. The Jiangxi vase is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji, Gongyi meishu bian 3, taoci, xia, (Shanghai, 1988), p. 12, no. 150.

A fahua meiping with a very similar central band but simple cloud collars on the shoulders formerly in the Eumorfopoulos Collection is illustrated by R.L. Hobson in The Eumorfopoulos Collection, London, 1927, vol. IV, pl. XL, no. D163. Another meiping, also with a central band of figures, depicted in a more elaborate style, but with similar pendent jewels between the cloud collars was exhibited in The Arts of the Ming, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952, no. 183.

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