M5540
Description
Chinese porcelain wucai vase and cover of meiping form, painted in a continuous scene, from the Romance of the Western Chamber, with a monk at the monastery being visited by a bandit, with Ying Ying and her maidservant Hongnian looking out from beyond a screen, with a bearded figure looking out from a window, the underglaze blue particularly well-drawn with bamboo rockwork and the roof to the entrance of the monastery, the reverse with iron-red cloud banks, the drop over cover painted with lingzhi, aster and bamboo, the gently sloped top with fruiting peach in iron-red beneath the underglaze blue finial.
11 1/2 inches, 29.3 cm high.
Chongzhen, c. 1640.
Condition
Vase in excellent condition, cover with hair crack
Provenance & Additional Information
- William Cleverly Alexander (1840-1916) collection.
- Sold at Sotheby’s London, 6th May 1931, lot 170.
- John Sparks, London, May/June 1931, as recorded in the RHRP ledger.
- The Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection, no. 240.
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