A blue and white meiping Ming dynasty, 16th century

the tapering body rising to curved shoulders surmounted by a flaring neck, painted in broad cobalt-blue strokes with large peony and chrysanthemum blooms issuing from rocks in a garden landscape, all above a band of horses galloping on cresting waves, the shoulder encircled by a diaper band with quatrefoil cartouches enclosing peach sprays, the neck with stiff leaves; together with a pair of smaller blue and white meiping decorated with lotus scrolls

Sydney L. Moss, London.

The meiping (pictured): In good general conditio, with a 9mm glaze pull or flake to the rim. Minor firing imperfections elsewhere. The pair of meiping: One slightly warped and leaning to the side. Otherwise in good general condition with minor firing imperfections.
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