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拍品專文
The present vase belongs to a group of wucai garlic-neck shaped vases dated to the Wanli period where the neck and the body are decorated with slightly varying motifs.
An identical shaped vase with the same decoration in blue and white is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (II), Hong Kong 2000, no. 165, p.176.
For similarly shaped wucai vases from the same period, but decorated with dragons, compare with an example sold in Christies Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot. 3113, also illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1990, p. 256, no. 109; another in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Enamelled Wares of the Ming Dynasty, Book III, CAFA, Hong Kong, 1966, p. 31, pl. 1; and one other illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Japan, 1989, no. 745.
Compare also with more Wanli period wucai garlic-head vases, decorated with birds by a pond, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, included in the Exhibition of Ming and Qing Works of Art, Ming Qing Gongyi Meishu Zhan, 1974, Catalogue, pl. 9; the example from the Baur Collection, Catalogue, Vol.II, no. A203; and one sold in Christies Hong Kong, 5-6 November 1997, lot 1050.
An identical shaped vase with the same decoration in blue and white is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (II), Hong Kong 2000, no. 165, p.176.
For similarly shaped wucai vases from the same period, but decorated with dragons, compare with an example sold in Christies Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot. 3113, also illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1990, p. 256, no. 109; another in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Enamelled Wares of the Ming Dynasty, Book III, CAFA, Hong Kong, 1966, p. 31, pl. 1; and one other illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Japan, 1989, no. 745.
Compare also with more Wanli period wucai garlic-head vases, decorated with birds by a pond, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, included in the Exhibition of Ming and Qing Works of Art, Ming Qing Gongyi Meishu Zhan, 1974, Catalogue, pl. 9; the example from the Baur Collection, Catalogue, Vol.II, no. A203; and one sold in Christies Hong Kong, 5-6 November 1997, lot 1050.