Page 58 - Metropolitan Museum Collection September 2016
P. 58
825
A FAHUA VASE, MEIPING
MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
The robustly potted, broad-shouldered, tapering body is decorated in
relief with beaded chains suspending monster masks above fgures in a
mountainous landscape, and below a large ruyi collar on the shoulder.
The relief decoration is highlighted in turquoise, green and cream
glaze against a mottled dark aubergine ground.
10æ in. (27.3 cm.) high
$7,000-9,000
PROVENANCE
John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1960.
明十五/十六世紀 琺華山水人物故事圖梅瓶
來源
小約翰．戴維森． 洛克菲勒（1874-1960）珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1960年。
56
