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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
1615
A VERY RARE MING-STYLE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-
DECORATED YELLOW-ENAMELED VASE, MEIPING
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE
PERIOD (1736-1795)
The superbly potted body is finely decorated in fifteenth-century style The inspiration for this shape and pattern originates from meiping
simulating 'heaping and piling' in rich tones of underglaze blue, with produced during the early Ming period, such as the Yongle-period blue
alternating registers of fruiting peach, pomegranate and lychees and and white vase and cover decorated with flowering and fruiting sprays
flowering leafy branches of peony, prunus and chrysanthemum, the in the Palace Museum, Beijing, which is illustrated in The Complete
end of each branch issuing from a sprig of lingzhi fungus. All are above Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 34 - Blue and White
a band of upright leaf tips and below a band of petal lappets radiating Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000, p. 32, no. 30.
from the base of the waisted neck decorated with four small foliate
sprays, all within blue line borders, and reserved on a bright yellow The combination of yellow enamel with underglaze blue decoration
enamel ground. originated in the Xuande period: see, for example, a large dish decorated
with a peony spray in the center and fruiting sprays in the cavetto,
12√ in. (32.8 cm.) high
illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods
Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong
$300,000-500,000
Kong, 1989, pp. 278-79, no. 98. The popularity of the yellow and blue
decoration continued into the Qing dynasty, where its use was extended
PROVENANCE:
Paul Kollsman (1900-1982) Collection, New York and Beverly Hills, to more elaborate vessel forms, including meiping, tianqiuping and
formed in the 1940s. faceted vases.
Sotheby's New York, 23-24 March 1998, lot 674.

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Portrait of Paul Kollsman © National Air and Space Museum

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