A VERY FINE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED PUCE-ENAMELLED VASE, MEIPING

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

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A VERY FINE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED PUCE-ENAMELLED VASE, MEIPING
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Decorated in Ming style in underglaze-red and puce enamel with four vigorous striding five-clawed dragons on an underglaze-blue ground of flower-heads and scrolling foliate stems, between lotus petal panels each containing a puce enamel circles around the foot and shoulder, a band of lingzhi scroll around the collar, the short waisted neck painted with stiff leaves and rising to a lipped rim--14in. (35.5cm.) high, box

Provenance

Alfred E. Hippisley
Guy Mayer, New York
H.M. Knight
Xie Mingchang

Literature

The present lot is illustrated by Hippisley, A Sketch of the History of Ceramic Art in China, with a Catalogue of the Hippisley Collection of Chinese Porcelain, pl. 15, no. 238

Exhibited

Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Exhibition Oosterse Schatten, 4000 Jaar Aziatische Kunst, 1954 (see Catalogue, no. 421)

Lot Essay

Although the technique of embellishing copper-red decoration with pink enamel is uncomon, it is by no means unique. Compare with a Qianlong-marked meiping sold in these Rooms, 29 September 1992, lot 507; a Qianlong-marked flask sold in Hong Kong, 13 December 1977, lot 125; and a Yongzheng-marked moon flask also sold in Hong Kong, 19 November 1986, lot 298.

A Yongzheng-marked yuhuchunping painted with two similar copper-red striding dragons on a dense composite flower scroll from the Collection of Dr. R.L. Carter, sold in our London Rooms, 10 December 1984, lot 969, appears to be the prototype for the present lot.

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 16 December 1988, lot 363

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