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拍品专文
Yuan blue and white vases have always been highly treasured by collectors, with vases of the elegant meiping form being especially desired. This exceptional and superb example stands out further due to the retention of its original cover, a feature that is often lost in other examples.
During the Yuan dynasty, the meiping would have served as a wine container. The intricate designs are brilliantly painted in cobalt of vibrant sapphire-blue tones, using expensive cobalt pigments imported from the Persian regions, contributing to the characteristic 'heaping and piling' effect and dark iron spots on the underglaze-blue decorations.
While vases of similar design and shape are known, there are often variations in the decorations, especially within the cloud collar, ranging from ducks in lotus pond, horse against waves, to phoenix motifs. There are only two examples that compare closely to the current lot, also with a cloud collar containing floral scrolls.
Two closely comparable examples (but without original covers) include:
1) The first example from the Ernst Schaefer of Krefeld Collection was sold without a cover at Sotheby’s London, 2 April 1974, lot 188; and was later sold with a matched cover from the Su Lin An Collection sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 31 October 1995, lot 308; and sold again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 7 July 2003, lot 640 (fig. 2) for HK$8,799,750. 2) The second example, without a cover, is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, vol. 11, Kodansha series, Tokyo, 1980, col. pl. 74 (fig. 3).
During the Yuan dynasty, the meiping would have served as a wine container. The intricate designs are brilliantly painted in cobalt of vibrant sapphire-blue tones, using expensive cobalt pigments imported from the Persian regions, contributing to the characteristic 'heaping and piling' effect and dark iron spots on the underglaze-blue decorations.
While vases of similar design and shape are known, there are often variations in the decorations, especially within the cloud collar, ranging from ducks in lotus pond, horse against waves, to phoenix motifs. There are only two examples that compare closely to the current lot, also with a cloud collar containing floral scrolls.
Two closely comparable examples (but without original covers) include:
1) The first example from the Ernst Schaefer of Krefeld Collection was sold without a cover at Sotheby’s London, 2 April 1974, lot 188; and was later sold with a matched cover from the Su Lin An Collection sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 31 October 1995, lot 308; and sold again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 7 July 2003, lot 640 (fig. 2) for HK$8,799,750. 2) The second example, without a cover, is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, vol. 11, Kodansha series, Tokyo, 1980, col. pl. 74 (fig. 3).