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ANOTHER PROPERTY
ⱷ966
A RARE SLIP-DECORATED BROWN-
GLAZED VASE AND A COVER, MEIPING
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
The high-shouldered, tapering body is decorated
in white slip on an amber-brown ground with two
lotus sprays separated by a standing crane, below
four cranes in flight at the shoulder. The cover is
decorated with stylized clouds.
10æ in. (27.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Japan.
Jessica Harrison-Hall, in Catalogue of Late
Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum,
London, 2001, pp. 347-49, nos. 11:188-89 and
11:190-93, illustrates several brown-glazed
white slip decorated vessels of different forms.
Harrison-Hall notes that this decoration was
introduced in the Wanli period, as shards of
vessels of this decoration have been excavated
in Zhushan in Jingdezhen dating to the late Ming
dynasty.

明萬曆 棕地白花梅瓶及蓋
來源:
私人珍藏, 日本

967

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, FLORIDA
967
A VERY RARE BLUE-GLAZED TRIPOD Ming-dynasty ribbed censers of this form derive
CENSER their shape from Tang-dynasty pottery prototypes
15TH CENTURY, PROBABLY XUANDE such as a green-glazed example sold at Christie’s
PERIOD New York, 14 September 2018, lot 1279. This rare
The cylindrical censer is molded around the blue-glazed example can be compared to two
glazed censers of similar form in the National
exterior with concentric bow-string ribs, raised Palace Museum, Taipei (see Catalogue of the
on three stout legs, and applied with a rich, deep- Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial
blue glaze from the mouth rim to slightly around Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, pp.
the edge of the base, leaving most of the base in 102-105), an aubergine-glazed example bearing a
biscuit and the interior covered in a transparent raised six-character Xuande mark below the rim,
glaze. and a turquoise-glazed example without a mark,
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high but with the glaze falling around the edge of
the base in a similar manner to that seen on the
$40,000-60,000 present example.
Tripod incense burner with relief bands and
佛羅里達州私人珍藏 peacock-green glaze, Ming dynasty, Xuande reign
十五世紀 或為明宣德 藍釉弦紋三足爐 (1426-1435). National Palace Museum, Taipei, 故瓷 967 (base)
009940N000000000.
孔雀綠釉弦紋三足爐, 明宣德, 臺北國立故宮博物院藏, 館藏
966 編號故瓷009940N000000000

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