A RARE AND FINELY PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY elegantly proportioned, the generously rounded baluster body tapering towards a splayed foot, the broad principal register painted with a large fruiting and flowering pomegranate tree, its branches supporting a pair of long-tailed birds, with butterflies and other insects hovering in the air above ornamental rockwork and other vegetation below, all above a border of lotus, arrowhead and aquatic plants emerging from turbulent waves encircling the foot, the shoulder with a collar of ruyi-shaped pendant lappets enclosing lotus reserved on a diaper ground, interspersed with strings of beads suspending jewels and precious objects, and a trefoil border below scattered floral sprays at the neck, the base unglazed, Japanese wood box (3) Height 12 3/4 in., 32.3 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Provenance Hirano Koto-ken, Tokyo. Exhibited Chūgokutoji Gen Ming Meihinten [Chinese Ceramics from the Yuan - Ming Dynasties], The Japan Ceramic Society, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, 1956, cat. no. 82. Chūgoku bijutsu ten series: Min Shin no bijutsu [Chinese Art exhibition series. The Art of the Ming and Qing dynasties], Osaka Art Museum, Osaka, 1980, cat. no. 1-57.
A RARE AND FINELY PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY elegantly proportioned, the generously rounded baluster body tapering towards a splayed foot, the broad principal register painted with a large fruiting and flowering pomegranate tree, its branches supporting a pair of long-tailed birds, with butterflies and other insects hovering in the air above ornamental rockwork and other vegetation below, all above a border of lotus, arrowhead and aquatic plants emerging from turbulent waves encircling the foot, the shoulder with a collar of ruyi-shaped pendant lappets enclosing lotus reserved on a diaper ground, interspersed with strings of beads suspending jewels and precious objects, and a trefoil border below scattered floral sprays at the neck, the base unglazed, Japanese wood box (3) Height 12 3/4 in., 32.3 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Provenance Hirano Koto-ken, Tokyo. Exhibited Chūgokutoji Gen Ming Meihinten [Chinese Ceramics from the Yuan - Ming Dynasties], The Japan Ceramic Society, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, 1956, cat. no. 82. Chūgoku bijutsu ten series: Min Shin no bijutsu [Chinese Art exhibition series. The Art of the Ming and Qing dynasties], Osaka Art Museum, Osaka, 1980, cat. no. 1-57.
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