A LARGE AND SUPERBLY PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT' MEIPING MING DYNASTY, MID-15TH CENTURY finely potted with high swelling shoulders rising to a tapering neck and lipped rim, superbly painted around the sides in the 'windswept' style with a continuous landscape with a lady and her attendant a garden with trees, rockwork and a fence, the lady adorned in beaded jewelry and long flowing robes tied with billowing sashes, holding a feather in the raised right hand, the attendant following and carrying a book, all below boldly stylized clouds with mountain peaks and further cloud wisps in the sky above, the foot encircled by a wide band of upright banana leaves, the shoulder painted with a meandering scroll of camellia below a cloud scroll at the neck, all divided by double line borders, the base unglazed, Japanese wood box (3) Height 14 3/8 in., 36.5 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Provenance Collection of R.H.R. Palmer (1898-1970). Sotheby's London, 27th November 1962, lot 5. J.T. Tai, New York. Sotheby's London, 10th December 1968, lot 59. Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, New York. Literature Ryōichi Fujioka, Tōji Taikei 42 Min no Sometsuke [Outlines of Ceramics: Blue and White Ceramics of the Ming Dynasty], vol. 42, Tokyo, 1975, pl. 59.
A LARGE AND SUPERBLY PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT' MEIPING MING DYNASTY, MID-15TH CENTURY finely potted with high swelling shoulders rising to a tapering neck and lipped rim, superbly painted around the sides in the 'windswept' style with a continuous landscape with a lady and her attendant a garden with trees, rockwork and a fence, the lady adorned in beaded jewelry and long flowing robes tied with billowing sashes, holding a feather in the raised right hand, the attendant following and carrying a book, all below boldly stylized clouds with mountain peaks and further cloud wisps in the sky above, the foot encircled by a wide band of upright banana leaves, the shoulder painted with a meandering scroll of camellia below a cloud scroll at the neck, all divided by double line borders, the base unglazed, Japanese wood box (3) Height 14 3/8 in., 36.5 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Provenance Collection of R.H.R. Palmer (1898-1970). Sotheby's London, 27th November 1962, lot 5. J.T. Tai, New York. Sotheby's London, 10th December 1968, lot 59. Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, New York. Literature Ryōichi Fujioka, Tōji Taikei 42 Min no Sometsuke [Outlines of Ceramics: Blue and White Ceramics of the Ming Dynasty], vol. 42, Tokyo, 1975, pl. 59.
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