A BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, C. 1640 |

the cylindrical form sweeping to a flared rim, painted in deep cobalt blue tones with myriad vessels bearing foliage and blossoms and a beaker vase of scrolls among them on a low table, the middle section with a band of foliate and ingot-form emblems above a row of pendent plantain leaves, all set between varying bands of deftly incised diaper, foliate, and auspicious motifs 

Sotheby's London, 3^rd July 1984, lot 4.
E & J Frankel, New York.

With four flake chips to the rim, the largest measuring approx. 0.75 cm wide. Also with minor firing flaws throughout including iron spots. Two labels adhered to base.
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A vase of this form with similar decoration and bearing a cyclical date mark corresponding to 1639 is illustrated and discussed in the opening essays of Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1981, fig. 18, and another similar example, included in the same exhibition and bearing a cyclical date mark corresponding to 1640, is illustrated op.cit., cat. no. 65.