MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
The heavily potted body is decorated in deep, rich, underglaze blue with a wide band of three lotus plants, grasses and sagitarria between double-line borders and a band of upright leaf tips below and a band of camelia scroll on the rounded shoulder above. Three small foliate sprays are on the short, tapering neck.
12 5/8 in. (32 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

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Lot Essay

Very similar camelia and leaf tip borders can be seen on a blue and white meiping with 'windswept'-style figural decoration in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Underglaze Blue & Red, Shanghai Museum, 1987, p. 86, no. 74, where it is dated mid-15th century.

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