A blue and white 'sanduo' meiping, Qing dynasty, 18th century | 清十八世紀 青花三多紋梅瓶

Property from a New York Private Collection

A blue and white 'sanduo' meiping

Qing dynasty, 18th century

清十八世紀 青花三多紋梅瓶

finely potted, the baluster body rising from a slightly splayed foot to broad shoulders and a short, waisted neck surmounted by a lipped rim, decorated in simulated 'heaping and piling' cobalt blue with fruiting sprays of peaches, pomegranates and finger citrons all between a trefoil border at the shoulder and a band of pendent plantain leaves encircling the lower body, the neck painted with a band of waves above a collar of radiating lappets

Height 12⅞ in., 32.8 cm