A cloisonné enamel meiping, Ming dynasty, 16th / 17th century | 明十六 / 十七世紀 掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮紋梅瓶

Compare a larger meiping in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, exhibited in the Mystery of the Jingtai Cloisonné Unveiled, National Palace Museum, Taipei, cat. no. I-30-1; another slightly larger meiping, illustrated in Gunhild Gabbert Avitabile, Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland. Chinesische und japanische Cloisonné- und Champleve- Arbeiten von 1400 bis 1900 [Ware of the Devil's Country : Chinese and Japanese cloisonné and champlevé from 1400 - 1900], Hannover, 1981, pl. 14; and a third example from the Pierre Uldry Collection, included in the exhibition Chinesisches Cloisonné. Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1985, cat. no. 122. See also another meiping sold in our New York rooms, 17th March 2009, lot 83.