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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, MEIPING
MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

明十五/十六世紀 青花攜琴訪友圖梅瓶

The exterior of the elegantly potted vase is painted in ‘windswept’ style,
depicting two fgural scenes in garden settings with pavilions, separated
by stylized scrolling clouds. One scene features two scholars engaged in
conversation, while the other scene shows a young boy attendant holding a qin
and accompanying another scholar. The shoulder is decorated with plantain
leaves, with a band of lappets surrounding the foot.

9√ in. (25 cm.) high

£40,000-60,000 $61,000-91,000
€55,000-82,000
此類繪有人物的明中期青花梅瓶非常罕有。美國華盛
Mid-Ming period meiping vases decorated with this type of fgural scene 頓費弗瑞爾藝廊（Freer Gallery of Art）藏一成化時期
are rare. A Chenghua period (1465-1487) example is in the Freer Gallery of （1465-1487） 的佳例，收錄於1982年東京株式會社講
Art, Washington, D.C., illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great 談社出版的《Oriental Ceramics : The World’s Great Col-
Collections, Kodansha Series, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 9, fg. 107. The current vase is lections》第9冊，圖版107號。另一明朝青花攜琴訪友梅
also very similar in style and decoration to a blue and white meiping dated to 瓶，器形及紋飾與此器相似，於1994年10月31日香港佳
the Chenghua period, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31 October 1994, lot 553. 士得拍賣，拍品第553號。另外可參考一件十五世紀末/
Furthermore, see a related Ming blue and white meiping, dated to the late 十六世紀初青花梅瓶，1988年12月13日於倫敦蘇富比拍
15th-early 16th century, sold at Sotheby’s London, 13 December 1988, lot 152. 賣，拍品第152號。

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