A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING
PROPERTY FROM THE JINGGUANTANG COLLECTION
A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING

细节
A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

Painted around the body with various fruit sprays including berries, peach, pomegranate and grapes, within double-line borders, the base with upright plantain leaves, the sloping shoulders with lotus lappets below a slightly flaring mouth and short straight neck, all painted in attractive inky-blue tones with simulated 'heaping and piling' (base and probably reign mark polished)
12 1/2 in. (31 cm.) high, box
出版
The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, 1995, pl. 57.

拍品专文

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.