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A RARE SLIP-DECORATED
BROWN-GLAZED VASE
MING DYNASTY,
16TH-EARLY 17TH CENTURY
ed in white slip
The pear-shaped vase is decorated in white slip
on an amber-brown ground with two fower-pots
two fower-pots
of leafy, blossoming peonies growing amidst
wing amidst
rockwork, below a band of ruyi-heads
eads
outh.
suspending jewels around the mouth.
10æ in. (27.5 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
wood box
$8,000-12,000
A slip-decorated brown-glazed vase decorated
vase decorated
with basins flled with rocks and large peonies,
large peonies,
uth, in The British
but with garlic-bulb-shaped mouth, in The British
Museum, is illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming
ison-Hall, Ming
Ceramics, London, 2001, p. 348, no. 11:190, where
no. 11:190, where
-1620. The author
it is dated Ming dynasty, c. 1573-1620. The author
notes that this combination of tofee-brown
fee-brown
ecoration was
ground with contrasting white decoration was
od, and that
frst introduced in the Wanli period, and that
late Ming era
shards of this type dating to the late Ming era
have been excavated at Zhushan in Jingdezhen.
in Jingdezhen.
明十六/十七世紀初 褐地白花牡丹紋瓶
牡丹紋瓶

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