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AN FINE AND RARE MING-STYLE COPPER-RED MEIPING

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AN FINE AND RARE MING-STYLE COPPER-RED MEIPING
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted in pencil style with a foliate lotus scroll around the body between double line borders, a band of upright overlapping plantain leaves above the foot, and pendant lotus panels at the shoulder below florettes at the neck, the copper-red of bright and even tone--9 7/8in.(25cm.) high

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Cf. the painting on a Qianlong-marked copper-red flask included in the joint exhibition from the Collections of the Percival David Foundation and C.P. Lin, Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration, Catalogue, no. 171; a similar example is illustrated by Anthony du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 206, fig. 1. A Qianlong-marked copper-red decorated monk's cap ewer and cover finely painted with a related lotus scroll from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 15, fig. 90

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