拍品專文
Although it is rare to find Chenghua jars of this type and decoration, a Chenghua meiping with scholars in a garden is illustrated in Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, no. 76, with identical overlaping triangular plantain leaves below a malow flower petal border at the shoulder and scrolling clouds on the neck, the base is treated with very similar lotus lappets.
A Chenghua guan of similar proportion painted with Immortals in a landscape between two bands of triangular plantain leaves is illustrated in the same volume, no. 78.
Borders of triangular plantain leaves with ridges edges are often found on Chenghua period wares. Compare also to a Chenghua Meiping from the collections of Robert C. Bruce and H.R.N. Norton, illustrated in the O.C.S. Exhibition of Ming Blue and White Porcelain, London, 1946, Catalogue, no. 97 and by Adrian M. Joseph, Ming Porcelains, Their Origins and Development, no. 39, along with a companion vase. Leaf borders on Chenghua jars in wucai enamels can be seen in Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, no. 79. Earlier porcelain examples with this type of leaf border do exist. Cf. a Xuande-marked guan in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, book II, (part I), no.2; and on a Xuande-marked vase, no. 4.
The overlapping mallow flower petal motif can be found on other early Ming wares. Cf. a celadon-glazed bowl and dish with Xuande marks included in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Special Exhibition of Xuande Porcelain, 1980, Catalogue, nos. 98 and 100.
The lotus petal borders with pendent pomegranate continue as decoration into the mid-Ming. Cf. such a border seen on a guan dated to the early 16th Century in Mayuyama, 70 Years, vol. 1, no. 790
A Chenghua guan of similar proportion painted with Immortals in a landscape between two bands of triangular plantain leaves is illustrated in the same volume, no. 78.
Borders of triangular plantain leaves with ridges edges are often found on Chenghua period wares. Compare also to a Chenghua Meiping from the collections of Robert C. Bruce and H.R.N. Norton, illustrated in the O.C.S. Exhibition of Ming Blue and White Porcelain, London, 1946, Catalogue, no. 97 and by Adrian M. Joseph, Ming Porcelains, Their Origins and Development, no. 39, along with a companion vase. Leaf borders on Chenghua jars in wucai enamels can be seen in Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, no. 79. Earlier porcelain examples with this type of leaf border do exist. Cf. a Xuande-marked guan in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, book II, (part I), no.2; and on a Xuande-marked vase, no. 4.
The overlapping mallow flower petal motif can be found on other early Ming wares. Cf. a celadon-glazed bowl and dish with Xuande marks included in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Special Exhibition of Xuande Porcelain, 1980, Catalogue, nos. 98 and 100.
The lotus petal borders with pendent pomegranate continue as decoration into the mid-Ming. Cf. such a border seen on a guan dated to the early 16th Century in Mayuyama, 70 Years, vol. 1, no. 790