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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NORTH AMERICAN
COLLECTION
1810
A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON MEIPING
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
The stoutly potted high-shouldered body tapers to a
spreading foot with square-cut rim, and the rounded
shoulder rises to a short conical neck. The vase is
covered overall with a mottled glaze of soft olive-
green tone.
15Ω in. (38.7 cm.) high
$8,000-12,000

Undecorated Longquan celadon meiping dating
to the early Ming dynasty are rare. An example of
identical size to the present vase in the National
Palace Museum, Taipei, was included in the
exhibition Green-Longquan Celadon of the Ming
Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, pp. 132-133, no. 65. A meiping
and cover dated to the Yuan or early Ming dynasty
is illustrated in Selected Treasures of Chinese Art:
Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition,
Hong Kong, 1990, no. 125. An example in the Tokyo
National Museum is published in Chinese Ceramics,
Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum,
Tokyo, 1965, p. 95, no. 387. Another similar example
was sold at Sotheby's London, 10 November 2004,
lot 561.
For two examples identical in size sold at auction,
see the meiping and cover formerly in the The Tsui
Museum of Art, Hong Kong, sold at Christie's Hong
Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3104; and another
example without a cover, sold at Christie's Hong
Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3815.

明十五世紀 龍泉青釉梅瓶