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A RARE EARLY MING COPPER-RED PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

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A RARE EARLY MING COPPER-RED PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
HONGWU

The body painted in liver-red tones with a continuous peony meander of four large flowers seen in profile and from above amidst an undualting stem with smaller blooms and pointed leaves, all between bands of pendent lappets, classic scroll, key-pattern and upright stiff leaves around the neck and lotus petals and classic scroll around the base and foot (neck restored)--13in. (33cm.)high

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A similar vase is illustrated by J.M. Addis, A Group of Underglaze-Red, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 31, 1957-59, pl.1b, where he discusses the yuhuchun form and related wares noting the similar silver vases datable to AD 1333 found in Anhui province

Other examples are illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol.1, nos.721-724 and Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol.13, col. pl. 214

An example but with a chrysanthemum scroll between identical borders from the T.Y. Chow Collection was sold in Hong Kong, 7 May 1987, lot 225

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