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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A MASSIVE BLUE AND WHITE
‘DRAGON’ MEIPING
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A
LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
Of an impressive size, sturdily potted with
broad rounded shoulders tapering to a narrow
foot, painted with two leaping five-clawed
dragons amidst flames and freely scrolling
lotus, all between lappet bands with trefoil
borders, the reign mark inscribed in a line
below the waisted neck.
25 in. (63.5 cm.) high

HK$200,000-300,000
US$26,000-38,000
PROVENANCE
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 October
2003, lot 621
There are two vases of identical shape and
design in the Palace Museum, Beijing, the
larger (72 cm. high overall) with covers,
illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and
White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II),
Hong Kong, 2000, plate 160; and the smaller
example (43 cm. high), plate 161. Eight blue
and white meiping of this form, including three
of this exact design, still with their covers,
were discovered in the Wanli Emperor’s tomb,
Ding Ling, among the few porcelain items
found when the tomb was excavated in 1958.

明萬曆 青花穿花龍紋梅瓶
六字楷書橫款
來源
香港佳士得，2003年10月27日，拍品621號

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