WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)

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A RARE SLIP-DECORATED BROWN-GLAZED VASE AND A COVER, MEIPING
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
The high-shouldered, tapering body is decorated in white slip on an amber-brown ground with two lotus sprays separated by a standing crane, below four cranes in flight at the shoulder. The cover is decorated with stylized clouds.
10 3/4 in. (27.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Private collection, Japan.

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Lot Essay

Jessica Harrison-Hall, in Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pp. 347-49, nos. 11:188-89 and 11:190-93, illustrates several brown-glazed white slip decorated vessels of different forms. Harrison-Hall notes that this decoration was introduced in the Wanli period, as shards of vessels of this decoration have been excavated in Zhushan in Jingdezhen dating to the late Ming dynasty.

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