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Lot Essay
The shape and decoration on qingbai wares were often fashioned after contemporaneous silver wares, and the current meiping is no exception. A silver meiping decorated with ruyi-shaped scrolls, excavated in a Southern Song hoard in Sichuan, for example, was possibly an inspiration for the design of the current vase. The silver vase is illustrated in S. Kwan, 'Tixi wenyang fenqi chuyi', Proceedings of Conference on Ancient Chinese Lacquer, Hong Kong, 2012, p. 65, fig. 11.
Qingbai vases of similar shape and design are in the collections of important museums and institutions around the world. An almost identical example was in the Qing Court Collection, now in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 33 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 167. Two other examples of varying sizes, one with a height of 26 cm. in the Sichuan Chongqing Museum, the other with a height of 35.1 cm. in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, are illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji: Song Yuan qingbai ci, vol. 16, Kyoto, 1984, pls. 20 and 101. Another example, registered as an Important Art Object in Japan, is illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 450. An example in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 11, New York, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 59. A slightly larger example (28.6 cm. high) in the Idemitsu Collection is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 423, and another in the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, p. 325, no. 606. Two further qingbai meipings of this type from the Yangde Tang Collection, were sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 November 2016, lots 3140 and 3141.
Two very similar Song dynasty vases, with the cylindrical covers and the same combed scrolling decoration, were found in a Southern Song hoard excavated in 1991 at Jinyucun, Suizhu, Sichuan province. See Newly Discovered Southern Song Ceramics - A Thirteenth-Century "Time Capsule", Tokyo, 1998, p. 59, nos. 62 and 63.
The result of C-Link Research and Development Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. 8822YK03 is consistent with the dating of this lot.
Qingbai vases of similar shape and design are in the collections of important museums and institutions around the world. An almost identical example was in the Qing Court Collection, now in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 33 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 167. Two other examples of varying sizes, one with a height of 26 cm. in the Sichuan Chongqing Museum, the other with a height of 35.1 cm. in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, are illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji: Song Yuan qingbai ci, vol. 16, Kyoto, 1984, pls. 20 and 101. Another example, registered as an Important Art Object in Japan, is illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 450. An example in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 11, New York, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 59. A slightly larger example (28.6 cm. high) in the Idemitsu Collection is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 423, and another in the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, p. 325, no. 606. Two further qingbai meipings of this type from the Yangde Tang Collection, were sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 November 2016, lots 3140 and 3141.
Two very similar Song dynasty vases, with the cylindrical covers and the same combed scrolling decoration, were found in a Southern Song hoard excavated in 1991 at Jinyucun, Suizhu, Sichuan province. See Newly Discovered Southern Song Ceramics - A Thirteenth-Century "Time Capsule", Tokyo, 1998, p. 59, nos. 62 and 63.
The result of C-Link Research and Development Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. 8822YK03 is consistent with the dating of this lot.