Lot Essay
Compare a vase with very similar decoration and crackled glaze, in the Eumorfopoulos collection, illustrated in R.L. Hobson, The Eumorfopoulos Collection: Vol. 4, The Ming Dynasty, London, 1926, D64.
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MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
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A POLYCHROME-DECORATED CRACKLE-GLAZED VASE
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
Of baluster shape, decorated around the body with large stylised lotus blooms in pale turquoise borne on scrolling leafy stems, the neck with a band of ruyi-heads above an underglaze-blue band of vertical lines, all reserved on a crackle-glazed ground, the base with an apocryphal underglaze-blue Xuande six-character mark within a double rectangle
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
Of baluster shape, decorated around the body with large stylised lotus blooms in pale turquoise borne on scrolling leafy stems, the neck with a band of ruyi-heads above an underglaze-blue band of vertical lines, all reserved on a crackle-glazed ground, the base with an apocryphal underglaze-blue Xuande six-character mark within a double rectangle
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's London, 'Property of a Lady of Title', 26 November 1979, lot 337.
Brought to you by
Caroline Allen
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