Live Auction 21109The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT' VASE, MEIPING
Lot 116

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT' VASE, MEIPING

MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

Closed19 October 2023

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A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT' VASE, MEIPING
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
The vase is decorated around the body with a continuous scene of a scholar and his attendant in a landscape beneath swirling clouds, all between key-fret and lappet bands.
14 in. (35.6 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 May 1991, lot 306.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Specialist note


This 'windswept' vase is painted in a similar style to lot 114, with scholars or sages with attendant figures in fantastic cloudy or misty landscapes. A smaller meiping with a related scene of a scholar and attendant carrying a zither 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 related scene beneath a band of mythological animals and waves from the Tianjin Museum is illustrated ibid., p. 337, no. 237.