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Blue and white meiping vase decorated in
Blue and white meiping vase decorated in
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148
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Blue and white meiping vase decorated in 'windswept' styleMing dynasty (2nd half of 15th century)
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Blue and white meiping vase decorated in
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BATEA : 146
Simple name
vase
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ceramic; porcelain; blue and white; Ming; vase; figures; landscape; windswept; China; meiping; scholar; tree;
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A blue and white meiping decorated in the so-called 'windswept' style, the main decoration being of two scholars meeting in a landscape, their attendants on the reverse, one carrying a qin, the other a dragon-headed staff. The two groups are separated by pine and willow trees. The reverse with a house entrance and swirling cloud, the landscape with clouds at the border, two further borders round the neck, the inner one with four phoenixes amid continuous lotus scrolls and double line borders, the outer with false gadroons, the mouth with four cloud scrolls. A further tall false gadroon border surrounds the bottom of the vase.
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porcelain
Description condition
good
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white
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underglaze blue
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30.5 cm
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16.5cm
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Gallery 5, Case 2-16
Production date
1450 = 1500
Production period
Ming
Production place
China
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