Description
Description: Chinese porcelain rare Ming vase. Very few of these vases are known. Because of its oddity if compared to more well-known Ming vases, for long time we had problems in dating it correctly, until we found “Chinese ceramics from datable tombs” by J. Addis, where it is said that a pair of these vases was found in a tomb in Nancheng dated 1624. They were part of a set comprising also two meiping vases, decorated with “…a pine on one side, a magpie and deer on the other.” They are illustrated also in “Yuan & Ming blue and white ware from Jiangxi” by the University of Hong Kong. These vases have a crackled glaze plus patches of thick white slip between the crackled glaze and a final covering clear glaze; the underglaze cobalt blue decoration is made on those patches, being thus enhanced by the white, not crackled background. This technique is more often seen under Kangxi, at the point that many believe that it is a Kangxi achievement, while indeed it was made also before, as proven by this and the other few examples known.
Dating: 17th century, Tianqi, Ming dynasty.
Size: 21 cm high
Provenance: Antiquarian market.
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