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Lot Essay
A meiping with similar decoration to the current vase was excavated in 1980 in Jiangxi province. It too has floral sprays set within the cloud collar around the neck and has figures in a garden landscape as its main decorative band. The Jiangxi vase is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji, Gongyi meishu bian 3, taoci, xia, (Shanghai, 1988), p. 12, no. 150.
A fahua meiping with a very similar central band but simple cloud collars on the shoulders formerly in the Eumorfopoulos Collection is illustrated by R.L. Hobson in The Eumorfopoulos Collection, London, 1927, vol. IV, pl. XL, no. D163. Another meiping, also with a central band of figures, depicted in a more elaborate style, but with similar pendant jewels between the cloud collars was exhibited in The Arts of the Ming, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952, no. 183.
See also an almost identical meiping vase sold in our London Rooms, 21 June 2001, lot 95.
A fahua meiping with a very similar central band but simple cloud collars on the shoulders formerly in the Eumorfopoulos Collection is illustrated by R.L. Hobson in The Eumorfopoulos Collection, London, 1927, vol. IV, pl. XL, no. D163. Another meiping, also with a central band of figures, depicted in a more elaborate style, but with similar pendant jewels between the cloud collars was exhibited in The Arts of the Ming, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952, no. 183.
See also an almost identical meiping vase sold in our London Rooms, 21 June 2001, lot 95.