AN EXTREMELY RARE DOUCAI VASE, MEIPING

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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AN EXTREMELY RARE DOUCAI VASE, MEIPING
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The body finely painted and enamelled with four floral medallions centering shou characters, the shoulder with a collar of demi-florettes and ruyi lappets, the base with stylised pomegranate panels enclosing lotus
7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm.) high, box

来源

W.W. Winkworth Collection, sold at Sotheby's London, 12 December 1972, lot 121
Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 12 May 1976, lot 356
The British Rail Pension Fund, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 68
Sold in our London Rooms, 19 June 2001, lot 107

出版

Sotheby's Hong Kong, Twenty Years, 1993, no. 234

拍品专文

Yongzheng meiping vases with doucai decoration are very rare. A considerably larger example with dragon and phoenix decoration is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Porcelains in Polychrome and Constrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 237. A slightly larger meiping, also in Beijing and illustrated in the same volume, no. 225, is decorated with floral scrolls and sprays. The depiction of the linear scrolling bands on the latter vase share similarities of style with those on the current vase. These two meiping also share a more restrained use of colour, typical of the finest Yongzheng doucai porcelains.