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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN LITERATURE

3222 Selected Treasures of Chinese Art: Min Chiu Society Thirtieth
Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1990, pp. 284-5, no. 127
A VERY RARE FINE AND SUPERBLY PAINTED The Alan Chuang Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Hong Kong, 2009,
pl. 11
BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING AND A COVER
明永樂 青花瑞果紋梅瓶
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425), THE COVER LATE MING DYNASTY
來源
The tapering body is boldly painted in rich tones of cobalt 倫敦蘇富比，1987年12月15日，拍品142號(梅瓶)
blue with extensive ‘heaping and piling’ with six fruiting sprays 紐約蘇富比，1993年6月2日，拍品382號(蓋)
arranged in two registers, with peach, pomegranate and crab apple 徐展堂珍藏(1941-2010)
on the upper register, and cherry, loquat and lychee on the lower 香港佳士得，1999年11月2日，拍品650號
register. The foot is encircled by overlapping acanthus leaves and 莊紹绥珍藏
the shoulder with a band of lotus petal lappets enclosing trefoils.
The bell-shaped cover is decorated on the slightly concave sides 展覽
with two fruiting sprays and on the almost flat top with a collar 香港藝術館，《歷代文物萃珍:敏求精舍三十週年紀念展》，
of six stylised lotus petals below a lotus-head finial, the underside 1990年11月30日至1991年2月10日
with an inner cylinder to fit the neck of the vase.
14 √ in. (37.8 cm.) high, overall 著錄
13 Ω in. (34.3 cm.) high, vase without cover 《歷代文物萃珍:敏求精舍三十週年紀念展》，香港，
1990年，頁284-5，編號127
HK$30,000,000-40,000,000 《莊紹綏收藏中國瓷器》，香港，2009年，圖版11號
US$3,900,000-5,200,000

PROVENANCE

Sold at Sotheby’s London, 15 December 1987, lot 142 (vase)
Sold at Sotheby’s New York, 2 June 1993, lot 382 (cover)
The T. T. Tsui Collection (1941-2010)
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 2 November 1999, lot 650
The Alan Chuang Collection

EXHIBITED

Hong Kong Museum of Art, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art: Min
Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, 30 November 1990 –
10 February 1991, Hong Kong

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