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A blue and white 'prunus' meiping vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period -1662-1722)
Lot 3115. A blue and white 'prunus' meiping vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period -1662-1722); 19.5 cm., 7 3/4 in. Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 HKD. Lot Sold 437,500 HKD. Photo Sotheby's
the curved sides supported on a double-pierced foot, rising to a rounded shoulder set with four semi-circular handles, surmounted by a short waisted neck with a lipped mouth, the exterior naturalistically painted in soft washes of cobalt-blue with a pair of butterflies, flying amidst a garden scene with a blossoming prunus tree, flanked by bamboo shoots and a peony branch springing from craggy rocks, wood stand.
Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28th November 1979, lot 164 (one of a pair, the mate unsold separately in lot 3113).
Note: This form appears to have inspired the Yongzheng meiping vase, characterised by a longer neck and three small loop-handles around the shoulder; see one covered in a robin's egg glaze in the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 38; and a celadon-glazed example sold in these rooms, 7th May 2002, lot 510.
Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 april 2011
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