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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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