A MING BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT' BALUSTER VASE, MEIPING

LATE 15TH CENTURY

细节

A MING BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT' BALUSTER VASE, MEIPING
late 15th century
Heavily potted and painted around the body in bold blue strokes with a continuous landscape with a scholar and his attendant carrying a zither beside trees below curly clouds, the tapering foot with a lotus lappet band, the rounded shoulder with three quatrefoil floral cartouches reserved on a leafy trellis-pattern ground, the short white neck with a lipped mouth, restored
12½in. (31.8cm.) high

拍品专文

The painting style on this vase is the well-known 'windblown' style. An earlier example of this style, providing an interesting comparison with the painting on this meiping can be seen among the paintings that cover the walls of a tomb excavated at Wangshang in Dengfeng, Henan province. This tomb has been dated by the Zhengzhou Archaeological Team to the Song or Jin period. See Wenwu, 1994, No.10, pp.4-9, colour plate opposite p.17. Two meiping with a similar design are in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, 1987, pls. 73 and 144 and pl.142.