Lot 2113. A blue and white 'windswept' meiping, late 15th century; 14 1/16 in. (36 cm.) high. Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 50,000. Price Realized USD 90,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014. 

The sides are painted in 'windswept' style with a continuous scene of a scholar followed by an attendant carrying a cloth-wrapped qin standing in a landscape framed above by scrolling clouds, and set between a band of upright leaf tips below and two graceful, leafy branches of rose and tree peony on the shoulder above, all within double-line borders.

Note: The style of painting on this vase and others like it, commonly known as 'windswept', refers to the way in which the sashes of the figures flutter in the breeze. All of these vases have a similar treatment of the clouds and landscape details and have decorative borders above and below the main band. Two meiping with similar decoration, in the Shanghai Museum, are illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, Shanghai, 1987, pls. 73-74, and pp. 142-44. See, also, the similar example sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2008, lot 574, which had lotus meander on the shoulder.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 20 - 21 March 2014