Gems of Imperial Porcelain from the Private Collection of Joseph Lau Part II

Gems of Imperial Porcelain from the Private Collection of Joseph Lau Part II

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 3507. A fine and very rare blue and white 'lotus scroll' vase, meiping, Ming dynasty, Yongle period | 明永樂 青花纏枝蓮紋梅瓶.

A fine and very rare blue and white 'lotus scroll' vase, meiping, Ming dynasty, Yongle period | 明永樂 青花纏枝蓮紋梅瓶

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A fine and very rare blue and white 'lotus scroll' vase, meiping,

Ming dynasty, Yongle period

明永樂 青花纏枝蓮紋梅瓶


superbly and elegantly potted with a full rounded shoulder rising at a gently flaring angle from the unglazed base and surmounted by a short waisted neck, skilfully painted in shades of cobalt blue with a wide frieze of lotus scrolls, the flowers rendered set in scene by a network of scrolling steams arranged in curvilinear patterns, between two bands encircling the shoulder and lower body, the first delicately detailed with fruiting sprays of pomegranate, lychee, peach, and crab apple, and the other enclosing flowering sprays of pomegranate, peony, chrysanthemum and camellia


31.4 cm

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15th/16th November 1988, lot 122.


香港蘇富比1988年11月15-16日,編號122

Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no. 62.


《求知雅集珍藏中國古陶瓷展》,香港,1981年,編號62

Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1981-82.


《求知雅集珍藏中國古陶瓷展》,香港中文大學文物館,香港,1981-82年