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Lot Essay
A nearly identical example, possibly the pair to this vase, in the Museé Guimet, Paris, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Greatest Collections, Kodansha Series, Vol. 7, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 80.
Other related meiping with different treatment to the shoulder include that with jewelled chains illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pl. 13:5; another sold in our London Rooms, 6 December 1993, lot 76; and a guan of this pattern illustrated Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, fig. 816. A meiping with lotus lappets at the shoulder, from the George Eumorfopolous Collection, is illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. IV, pl. XXXV, included in the Exhibition of Chinese Art, Conduit Street, London, 1938 and is illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. II, Geneva, 1969, pl. A 152.
Other related meiping with different treatment to the shoulder include that with jewelled chains illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pl. 13:5; another sold in our London Rooms, 6 December 1993, lot 76; and a guan of this pattern illustrated Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, fig. 816. A meiping with lotus lappets at the shoulder, from the George Eumorfopolous Collection, is illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. IV, pl. XXXV, included in the Exhibition of Chinese Art, Conduit Street, London, 1938 and is illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. II, Geneva, 1969, pl. A 152.