Lot 284
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDGAR AND HEDWIG WORCH
A MING FAHUA MEIPING

Details
A MING FAHUA MEIPING
16TH CENTURY

Of slender form, crisply molded on the sides with a broad band of scrolling leafy peony, divided by jeweled 'precious objects' suspended from lingzhi fungus heads at the shoulder, and a band of lappets encircling the foot, all picked out in vibrant turquoise, yellow, white and some pale red against a deep purplish-blue ground, with replaced enameled metal neck, base drilled, potting flaw--11in. (28cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare with the meiping of almost the same size and decoration but with the addition of a ruyi collar in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 8, no. 92. Compare, also, meipings with the same border of jeweled 'precious objects' suspended from lingzhi heads but above flower sprays interspersed with pierced rockwork; one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, included in the Art Gallery of New South Wales Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics, 1965, Catalogue no. 76, the other illustrated by Hobson in the Leonard Gow Collection Catalogue, pl. XXXVII, no. 4