.jpg?w=1)
Lot Essay
A slightly larger Yongzheng meiping with cover, formerly in the Collection of Eli Lilly, was sold in New York, 2 June 1993, lot 382.
A Qing meiping of this design but without the cover is illustrated by Geng Baochang in Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Mingdai Bufen, p. 19, pl. 16, next to its Yongle prototype (pl. 15). The Qing example has widely-spaced and smaller branches, and a narrower, sloping shoulder, which is also evident on the present lot.
Compare also with the Ming prototype of this design. One from the National Palace Musuem, Taiwan, is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of Ming Dynasties, Book II, pl. 1; a pair is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol, 1, no. 624; one by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, Book 4, p. 49; and yet another from the Chang Foundation illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taibei, 1990, no. 80, p. 198.
A Qing meiping of this design but without the cover is illustrated by Geng Baochang in Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Mingdai Bufen, p. 19, pl. 16, next to its Yongle prototype (pl. 15). The Qing example has widely-spaced and smaller branches, and a narrower, sloping shoulder, which is also evident on the present lot.
Compare also with the Ming prototype of this design. One from the National Palace Musuem, Taiwan, is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of Ming Dynasties, Book II, pl. 1; a pair is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol, 1, no. 624; one by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, Book 4, p. 49; and yet another from the Chang Foundation illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taibei, 1990, no. 80, p. 198.