Live Auction 21109The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN 'WINDSWEPT' VASE, MEIPING
Lot 114

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN 'WINDSWEPT' VASE, MEIPING

MING DYNASTY, LATE 15TH CENTURY

Closed19 October 2023

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A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN 'WINDSWEPT' VASE, MEIPING
MING DYNASTY, LATE 15TH CENTURY
Decorated around the body in bold blue strokes with a continuous scene of a scholar and his attendant carrying a zither in a landscape beneath swirling clouds, between a border of floral cartouches on a diaper ground at the shoulders and a lotus lappet band above the foot
12 ½ in. (31.8 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 December 1997, lot 94.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Specialist note


The painting style on this vase is the well-known 'windswept' style. A smaller meiping with a similar design is in the Shanghai Museum, and is illustrated in Lustre Revealed: Jingdezhen Porcelain Wares in the Mid Fifteenth Century China, Shanghai, 2019, p. 336, no. 236. Another example with a similar scene beneath a band of mythological animals and waves from the Tianjin Museum is illustrated ibid., p. 337, no. 237.