A SLIP-DECORATED BROWN-GLAZED 'LOTUS POND' MEIPING MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD |

elegantly proportioned, the body rising from a recessed base to a gently rounded shoulder and short trumpet neck with an everted rim, decorated in white slip with lightly incised details with cranes amongst sprays of flowering lotus blossoms issuing from large lotus leaves and leafy waterweeds on each side, against an iridescent coffee-brown glaze, the foot ring and base applied with a clear glaze

J. T. Tai & Co., Inc., New York, 9th January 1958.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).  

There is a flake chip to the foot, measuring approx. 1.5 cm wide, and some expected minor firing imperfections, including an approx. 1.4 cm wide glaze flaw to the mid-section of the body.
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