Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art

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A RARE MINIATURE COPPER-RED DECORATED
‘MEIPING’ VASE
Yuan dynasty, 1279-1368
元 1279-1368 釉 里 红 梅 瓶
Dimensions: 9.5cm high
Provenance: - A private Taiwanese collection
The body of the vase is decorated with bamboo branches, beneath a band of
classic scrolls around the neck. The vase is covered in a soft, pale blue-tinged white
glaze revealing the burnt orange body around the slightly splayed foot.
Miniature vases of this type are rare. Compare a copper-red decorated jar, decorated
with chrysanthemum below a similar band of classic scroll sold at Christie’s New
York, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 17 March 2017, lot 1167. Two
further jars, decorated in underglaze blue are illustrated in ’Jingdezhen Wares, The
Yuan Evolution’, Hong Kong, 1984, p. 136, nos. 115 and 116.