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倫敦蘇富比1946年3月1日，編號14
Bluett & Sons，倫敦
Robert C. Bruce (1898-1953) 收藏
倫敦蘇富比1953年5月12日，編號88
Bluett & Sons，倫敦
Walter Sedgwick 夫人 (1883-1967) 收藏
倫敦蘇富比1968年7月2日，編號132
William Clayton Ltd.，倫敦，1968年7月29日

Exhibition
Ming Blue and White Porcelain, The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1946, cat. no. 54.
The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, 18th September - 22nd October 1979.

展覽
《Ming Blue and White Porcelain》，東方陶瓷學會，倫敦，1946年，編號54
The Cosmopolitan Club，紐約，1979年9月18日至10月22日

Catalogue Note
This meiping bears many of the characteristics of wares of the Interregnum period (1436-1464), in particular the deep inky cobalt-
blue used in a fairly liquid solution. Peacocks and peonies were a popular design to decorate meiping vases at that time. Compare
a vase with this design, excavated in Nanjing and now in the Nanjing Museum, which has been attributed to the Xuande period
(1426-1435), in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, Beijing, 2008, vol. 7, pl. 189; and to the Zhengtong period
(1436-1449) in Zhang Pusheng and Huo Hua, San yi Ming kongbaiqi qinghua ci [Three thoughts on Interregnum blue-and-white
porcelain], Zhuo shuo zhong xian. Shiwu shiji zhongqi Jingdezhen ciqi guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwen gao/Lustre Revealed.
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Jingdezhen Porcelain in Mid Fifteenth Century, Shanghai, 2019, p. 75, figs 1-1 and 1-
2. Compare also a jar in the Tianminlou Collection with peacocks among peonies and a similar diaper border around the shoulder,
and a meiping with peacocks among peonies in the Shanghai Museum, both attributed to the Interregnum period, and another
meiping with this design in the Palace Museum, Beijing, attributed to the Zhengtong reign, included in the exhibition
catalogue Zhuo shuo zhong xian. Shiwu shiji zhongqi Jingdezhen ciqi teji/Lustre Revealed. Jingdezhen Porcelain in Mid Fifteenth
Century China, Shanghai Museum, 2019, cat. nos 226, 239, and 240. Further examples of meiping with this subject include one in
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, included in the exhibition, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection. Memorial Exhibition, Boston, 1952, cat.
no. 390, attributed to the Xuande period; another in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, illustrated in Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches
Porzellan, Mainz, 1981, p. 56, pl. 4, attributed to the 15th century.

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