Lot Essay
A meiping of the same size and with identical formal borders is included in the Inaugural Exhibition of the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath, England, 1993, Catalogue, vol. 1, no. 146
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A MING BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING
LATE 15TH CENTURY
Well painted in 'windswept style' with two officials conversing in a garden while their attendants converse on the other side of the pine and willow trees which divide and overhang the scene beneath trailing cloud-like vapor issuing from one side, bordered by a band of petal lappets below and bands of phoenix amidst lotus meander and further petal lappets above, the flared neck encircled by detached clouds, all within double-line borders, small mouth rim chips--12½in. (31.8cm.) high
LATE 15TH CENTURY
Well painted in 'windswept style' with two officials conversing in a garden while their attendants converse on the other side of the pine and willow trees which divide and overhang the scene beneath trailing cloud-like vapor issuing from one side, bordered by a band of petal lappets below and bands of phoenix amidst lotus meander and further petal lappets above, the flared neck encircled by detached clouds, all within double-line borders, small mouth rim chips--12½in. (31.8cm.) high