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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
1624
A RARE COPPER-RED-DECORATED ‘PEONY SCROLL’
BOTTLE VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
HONGWU PERIOD (1368-1398)
The elegantly potted body is freely decorated in a greyish tone of copper
red with four peony blossoms alternately shown in profle and full face and
budding fowers borne on scrolling, leafy stems, all between a large cloud
collar flled with hatching on the shoulder and lotus lappets containing ruyi-
head pendants above a band of key fret encircling the foot ring. The neck is
further decorated with upright plantain leaves above bands of key fret and
peony scroll, and the top of the mouth rim with a band of classic scroll.
13º in. (33.7 cm.) high, cloth box

$300,000-500,000

PROVENANCE
Lord Trevelyan, G.C.M.G., C.I.E., O.B.E.
Lady Trevelyan; Sotheby’s London, 2 April 1974, lot 193.
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, by 1987.
Dr. T. T. Tsui (1941-2010) Collection, Hong Kong.
Fred Li, Hong Kong.

EXHIBITED
On loan: British Museum, 1958-1973.
LITERATURE
John Addis, “A Group of Underglaze Red”, The Transactions of the Oriental
Ceramic Society, London, 1957, vol. 31, pl. Id.
Margaret Medley, Yuan Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1974, pl. 50A.
Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo,
1987, no. 626.
明洪武 釉裏紅牡丹紋玉壺春瓶

The present vase illustrated in J. Addis, “A Group of Underglaze
Red”, The Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, London,
1957, vol. 31, pl. Id.

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