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M5549

Chinese porcelain blue and white large beaker vase, of slender gu form, with flared rim and foot, painted with a young scholar meeting a senior official with his two attendants in a fenced scene beside a screen painted with a landscape, the entrance with a large stack of books on a table, all in a continuous landscape scene with bamboo, palm trees, rockwork, plantain and ‘classic’ v-shaped grass, beneath the moon with the wall of a building in the distance beneath clouds, all between anhua bands of triangular diaper, the unglazed base revealing the biscuit body.

Chongzhen, Transitional, circa 1640.

17 inches, 43.3 cm high.

Overall excellent condition without any chips or cracks, one tiny rim nibble retouched and general wear to be expected with age.

From an important old French collection.
A similar vase of this form, also with a narrative theme of a meeting is illustrated by Teresa Canepa and Katharine Butler in Leaping the Dragon Gate, The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, no. III.2.51a,b, p. 220; another, given by Sir A. W. Franks, is illustrated by Jessica Harrison Hall in Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, no. 12:85, collection no. OA F.113, pp. 387/8; two further examples in the Royal Collection are illustrated by John Ayers in Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Volume 1, nos. 249 and 250. It is interesting to note that all the above beaker vases of this form are painted in three registers, unlike the present piece which is unusually painted with one scene.

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