A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘BIRD AND FLOWER’ BOTTLE VASE

WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)

Details

A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘BIRD AND FLOWER’ BOTTLE VASE
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
The vase is painted around the body with birds and flowers, between a band of plantain leaves above and a band of upright stylised petals below. The neck is further painted with a lotus scroll below a band of key frets on the lipped rim. The splayed foot is encircled by a floral scroll.
10 1/4 in. (26 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

A Japanese private collection, Shikoku, acquired in the Edo period (1603-1868)

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Lot Essay

An identical vase, dated to the Wanli period, is in the Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, no. 168 (fig. 1), where it is stated that the unusual shape of the vase can be seen as a prototype of mallet vases made during the Qing dynasty.

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