A GOOD MING BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING

PROPERTY OF A LADY

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A GOOD MING BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING
CIRCA 1500

Well painted in vivid tones of blue in the 'windswept style' with a scholar-immortal and attendant standing by a handled basket and hoe, within a landscape setting of plantain, craggy pine and other vegetation and below a cover of swirling clouds, bordered by a key-pattern band and lappets encircling the foot and high shoulder, the short waisted neck with a further key-fret band, foot chips - 14 in. (35.7 cm.) high

Lot Essay

This group of vases are invariably painted with scholars or sages with attendant figures in fantastic cloudy or misty landscapes. A vase with a similar figural scene from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. R. Palmer was sold Christie's Hong Kong, January 17, 1989, lot 574. Other examples are illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, col. pls. 73 and 74 with details on pls. 142-144; in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 14, pls. 156 and 158; and also in Min no Sometsuke, Heibonsha, 1979, vol. 42, pls 59 and 60