2007
A BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD 'LION' BOTTLE VASE
A BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD 'LION' BOTTLE VASE

MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

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A BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD 'LION' BOTTLE VASE
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
The vase is delicately potted with a compressed globular body rising from a splayed foot to a long slender neck ending in a garlic-head mouth, well painted in soft blue wash with two lions playing with tasselled brocade balls, between bands of stylised petals. The neck is painted around with flowering plum branches, a lingzhi fungus and a crescent moon, between a band of overlapping petals around the knopped mouth and keyfret at the shoulder.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high, stand, Japanese wood box

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A slightly larger vase of identical form and design, from the Edward T. Chow Collection, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 413.
The design of plum, lingzhi and moon on the neck of the current vase can also be found on a blue and white dish, dated to the Chenghua period, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and illustrated in the front cover of A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics by Suzanne G. Valenstein, New York, 1989. Compare also to a larger vase of the same form, dated to the 15th century and painted in cobalt blue with plum blossom branches, in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul and illustrated by Soame Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953, pl. 36B.