18TH CENTURY

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A MING-STYLE YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING
18TH CENTURY
The sides decorated with a wide band of leafy composite foliate meander bearing four large blossoms and six buds between petal lappet and leaf spray borders, with four bands of foliate decoration on the shoulder below the short neck, all painted in underglaze blue in fifteenth century style and reserved on a pale lemon-yellow ground, base unglazed
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

Lot Essay

It is rare to find blue and white meiping of this type enamelled with a yellow ground. Several doucai examples are recorded, including one by S. Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. LXXXVIII; and another sold at Sotheby's, London, 9 June 2004, lot 200.
The shape and the decoration of the vase are based on Yuan prototypes, such as the example illustrated by J. A. Pope in Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, pl. 25, no. 29.407.

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