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A FAHUA MEIPING
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

glazed in aubergine, turquoise and yellow reserved against a
deep blue ground, depicting a sage drifting towards a pavilion
enshrouded in clouds approached by an attendant carrying a
wrapped qin, between a ruyi-collar enclosing lotus blossoms at
the shoulder and a lappet band below, the interior applied with
a yellow glaze, Japanese wood box (2)
Height 11¼ in., 28.6 cm
Another vase of this type and subject from the Qing court
collection, now housed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is
illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin daxi: za
you cai, su sancai / The Complete Collection of Treasures in
the Palace Museum: Miscellaneous Enameled Porcelains, Plain
Tricolored Porcelains, Shanghai, 2009, cat. no. 234.
$ 20,000-30,000

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