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Vases of this form are found decorated in a variety of designs in both B S N Niigata
underglaze blue and polychrome enamels; for example see one painted with
dragons and phoenix in cobalt, from the B.S.N. Niigata Hoso Museum, sold Hoso Museum 2011
at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1st June 2011, lot 3591; and a wucai example, in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Enamelled Ware of the Ming 61 3591
Dynasty, bk. III, Hong Kong, 1966, p. 31, pl. 1; another decorated in underglaze
blue with an aquatic scene, from the Charles B. Hoyt collection, in the Museum Enamelled
of Fine Arts, Boston, acc. no. 49.24; and a colorfully enameled example, but
of smaller size, in the Schlossmuseum, Berlin, illustrated in Robert Schmidt, Ware of the Ming Dynasty III
Chinesische Keramik von der Han-Zeit bis zum XIX. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt am
Main, 1924, pl. 69. 1966 31 1

Another commonly found motif on Wanli vases of this form is that of birds Charles B Hoyt
and waterfowl; see a pair of vases from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo,
included in the exhibition Imperial Overglaze-Enamelled Wares in the Late Ming 49 24
Dynasty, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1995, cat. no. 22; two larger
vases in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, one illustrated in Minji meihin Schlossmuseum Robert
zuroku, vol. III, Tokyo, 1978, pl. 100, and the other published in Liu Liang-yu,
Ming O cial Wares,Taipei, 1991, p. 255 (top right); and another in the Palace Schmidt Chinesische Keramik von
Museum, Beijing, published in Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol. 13, Shanghai,
2000, pl. 109, possibly of the same size as the present vase but with the rim der Han Zeit bis zum XIX Jahrhundert
damaged. A related vase was included in the International Exhibition of Chinese
Art, the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935, cat. no. 1912, and later sold 1924 69
in our London rooms, 24th March 1953, lot 62; another was sold at Christie’s
Hong Kong, 5th/6th November 1997, lot 1050; another was sold in these rooms, 䴝 1995
8th April 2007, lot 525; and a fourth vase, sold in these rooms, 23rd October
2005, lot 456, is illustrated in Julian Thompson, The Alan Chuang Collection of 22
Chinese Porcelain, Hong Kong, 2009, pl. 26.
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