A rare underglaze-red pear-shaped bottle vase (Yuhuchunping), Yuan dynasty

Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth (1929-2014).

Sotheby's New York, 30th March 2006, lot 62.

It is very rare to find vases similarly painted with resist-decorated floral scrolls in underglaze copper-red. Compare a Yuan dynasty yuhuchunping decorated in a similar technique and style, discovered in Leping county, Jiangxi province, in 1980, illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji. Yuan [The complete works of Chinese ceramics. Yuan], vol. 11, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 234.