Olivia Xu
Associate Specialist
Lot 309
A RARE MINIATURE COPPER-RED VASE, MEIPING Yuan Dynasty
2 November 2023, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,500 - £3,500
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Edward Luper
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A RARE MINIATURE COPPER-RED VASE, MEIPING
Yuan Dynasty
The body well-potted with rounded shoulder and a tapering baluster body on a gently flaring foot, decorated with branches of bamboo under a band of classic scrolls encircling the neck, covered in a soft, white glaze displaying a bluish tinge save from the foot and base which are burnt orange. 9.5cm (3 3/4in) high.
The body well-potted with rounded shoulder and a tapering baluster body on a gently flaring foot, decorated with branches of bamboo under a band of classic scrolls encircling the neck, covered in a soft, white glaze displaying a bluish tinge save from the foot and base which are burnt orange. 9.5cm (3 3/4in) high.
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元 釉裡紅竹紋梅瓶
Notable for the freely-applied strokes of copper on a bluish-tinged glaze, this vessel would have been made at Jingdezhen during the Yuan dynasty, when potters began experimenting with copper pigments on qingbai-type glazes; see J.M.Addis, Chinese Porcelain from the Addis Collection. Twenty-two Pieces of Chingtechen Porcelain Presented to the British Museum, London, 1979, pp.9-10.
Miniature vessels painted in copper-red are rare. The division of the ornamentation into distinct horizontal bands, however, is typical of the period; see a copper-red pear-shaped vase, Yuan dynasty, displaying a similar division into two main decorative registers separated by double horizontal bands, illustrated by J.Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, no.1:17.
Compare with a related copper-red jar, Yuan dynasty, decorated with chrysanthemum below a similar band of classic scrolls, which was sold at Christie's New York, 17 March 2017, lot 1167.
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