YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

Yuhuchunping decorated with a dragon pursuing a flaming pearl are relatively rare. Compare the current vase to a smaller example formerly in the Ataka collection and now in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Osaka, illustrated by Zhu Yuping in Yuandai qinghua ci (Yuan Blue and White Porcelain), Shanghai, 2000, p. 87, no. 3-45; and one formerly in the collections of Charles E. Russell, Mrs. Alfred Clark, The Meiyintang Collection and Ten Views Lingbi Collection, sold at Poly Beijing, 7 June 2021, lot 5044. A fragment of a yuhuchunping of this pattern was discovered near Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, and exhibited in Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khan, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1993, p. 141, no. 91.