MING DYNASTY, EARLY 15TH CENTURY

The Yuhuchunping form was produced during the Yuan and early Ming period, but the plantain decorative pattern was only used during the early Ming period. Compare with a similar plantain-decorated blue and white Yuhuchunping vase, now in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000, no.33. See also the bodies of two longquan ewers with near identical decorations of the leafy plantain and lappet band, illustrated in Green: Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, no. 61 and Longquan Ware: Chinese Celadon Beloved of the Japanese, Japan, 2012, no. 86.