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A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING
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A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING

UNDERGLAZE-BLUE WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

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A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING
UNDERGLAZE-BLUE WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The body painted in smokey blue tones with a male and female ascending and descending phoenix, the tail feathers of one forming elaborate scrollwork, flying amidst stylised clouds between a band of tall lotus lappets around the base and shoulder
22¾ in. (58 cm.) high
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Such large blue and white meiping are either decorated with phoenix or dragons. Jessica Harrison-Hall notes in Ming Ceramics that eight blue and white meiping of this form, still with their covers, were discovered in the Wanli emperor's tomb, the Ding Ling. They were among the relatively few porcelains discovered there when the tomb was investigated.
A similar vase was sold in our Paris Rooms, 22 November 2006, lot 282. Another is illustrated in The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 8, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Kodansha 1982, pl. 246 ; another one was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 2005, lot 646.
For similar large vases decorated with dragons, see He Li, Chinese Ceramics, The New Standard Guide,San Francisco, 1996, pl.428 ; and the meiping sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 2 May 1994, lot 641.