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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT
NORTH AMERICAN COLLECTION
718
A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON MEIPING
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
The stoutly potted high-shouldered body tapers
to a spreading foot with square-cut rim, and the
rounded shoulder rises to a short conical neck.
The vase is covered overall with a glaze of soft
olive-green tone.
15Ω in. (38.7 cm.) high
$15,000-20,000

Undecorated Longquan meiping dating to the
early Ming dynasty are rare. An example of
identical size to the present vase in the National
Palace Museum, Taipei was included in the
exhibition Green-Longquan Celadon of the Ming
Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, pp. 132-133, no. 65. A
meiping and cover dated to the Yuan or early
Ming dynasty is illustrated in Selected Treasures
of Chinese Art: Min Chiu Society Thirtieth
Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1990, no.
125. An example in the Tokyo National Museum
is published in Chinese Ceramics, Illustrated
Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo,
1965, p. 95, no. 387. Another similar example was
sold at Sotheby’s London, 10 November 2004,
lot 561.
For two examples identical in size sold at
auction, see the meiping and cover formerly in
the The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3104;
and another example without a cover, sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3815.
明十五世紀 龍泉青釉梅瓶

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