Lot Essay
For an identical vase in the Tokyo National Museum see Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Kodansha Series, Japan, 1982, vol.1., no.112; and also illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol.1, no.721. For another in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, see Sherman E. Lee and Wai-kam Ho, Chinese Art under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968, Catalogue, no.170; and one other example, in the The Kokusui Museum, Japan, is illustrated in the revised Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol.13, fig.146.
Vases of this shape with a broad peony scroll below a band of trefoils are known with a variety of neck designs but with varying degrees of success in the firing of the copper-red. For a discussion of the group see J. M. Addis, A Group of Underglaze Red, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol.31, London, 1957-1959, pp.15-37.
Compare, also, the similar vases sold in these Rooms, 10 April 1984, lot 208 and also illustrated by Anthony du Boulay, Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics 1984, colour frontispiece; and lot 351 sold in our New York Rooms, 23 March 1995. A vase of this type but decorated with a chrysanthemum scroll was offered in our Hong Kong Rooms, 1 May 1995, lot 640
Vases of this shape with a broad peony scroll below a band of trefoils are known with a variety of neck designs but with varying degrees of success in the firing of the copper-red. For a discussion of the group see J. M. Addis, A Group of Underglaze Red, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol.31, London, 1957-1959, pp.15-37.
Compare, also, the similar vases sold in these Rooms, 10 April 1984, lot 208 and also illustrated by Anthony du Boulay, Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics 1984, colour frontispiece; and lot 351 sold in our New York Rooms, 23 March 1995. A vase of this type but decorated with a chrysanthemum scroll was offered in our Hong Kong Rooms, 1 May 1995, lot 640