THE PROPERTY FROM A FAR EASTERN FAMILY COLLECTION
A RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING

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A RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING
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The baluster body rising to a lipped rim and resting on lightly splayed flat base, painted around the sides in attractive inky-blue tones with an arching lotus scroll issuing buds in different stages of bloom and pods, with both spiky trident and curled leaves intertwined with millet branches, above a band of six lotus sprigs around the base and classic scroll around the shoulder, all within double-line borders (body crack restored)--10in. (25.5cm.) high

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A near identical example in the Shanghai museum is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, pl. 51; two in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, are illustrated in the Catalogue, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book I, pls. 14, 15 and in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 11; on in the Freer Gallery of Art in Oriental Ceramics, the World's Great Collections, 1981, vol. 9, no. 92; and another with a cover, formerly in the T.Y. Chao collection, is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol. 1, fig. 11

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