A FINE MAGNIFICENT AND EXCEPTIONAL BLUE AND WHITE ‘PEONY SCROLL’ MEIPING AND COVER

Lot 2701
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Lot 2701 | A FINE MAGNIFICENT AND EXCEPTIONAL BLUE AND WHITE ‘PEONY SCROLL’ MEIPING AND COVER
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HKD 20 000 000 – 30 000 000
A FINE MAGNIFICENT AND EXCEPTIONAL BLUE AND WHITE ‘PEONY SCROLL’ MEIPING AND COVER

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

17 5⁄8 in. (44.7 cm.) overall height





Provenance

Sold at Sotheby’s London, 10 December 1985, lot 191



Literature

- Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, no. 4

- Selected Treasures of Chinese Art: Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 268-269, no. 119

- Blue and White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Taipei, 1992, p.48-49, no. 7

- Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000-nen no seika [Exhibition of Chinese Pottery: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics], Tokyo, 1992, p.73, no. 64

- Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Tianminlou Foundation, Shanghai, 1996, p. 42-43, no. 8

- The Grandeur of Chinese Art Treasures: Min Chiu Society Golden Jubilee Exhibition, Hong Kong, 2010, p. 256, no. 114

- Treasures of Hong Kong: The 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s Handover, Beijing, 2018, p. 140, no. 111



Exhibited

- Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, no.4

- Hong Kong Museum of Art, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art: Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong, 30 November 1900 – 10 February 1991, no. 119

- Chang Foundation, Blue and White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Taipei, 1992, no. 7

- Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000-nen no seika [Exhibition of Chinese Pottery: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics], Japan, 9 April – 23 November 1992, no. 64

- Shanghai Museum, Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Tianminlou Foundation, Shanghai, 1996, p. 42-43, no. 8

- Hong Kong Museum of Art, The Grandeur of Chinese Art Treasures: Min Chiu Society Golden Jubilee Exhibition, Hong Kong, 25 September 2010 – 2 January 2011, no. 114

- China Capital Museum, Treasures of Hong Kong: The 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s Handover, Beijing, 30 September -3 December 2017, p. 104, no. 111



Further details

COLLECTOR’S NOTE:
Tianminlou is renowned for its distinguished Yuan blue and white porcelain collection, notable for its breadth and depth. The collector recalls when in preparation for their first large-scale exhibition to be held at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 1987, they learned about an important Yuan blue and white meiping with the original cover on offer at an auction in London. They decided they must secure this major piece for the exhibition, and were determined to win it at auction regardless of price. They were indeed the successful bidder, winning the lot at £286,000, a considerable sum at the time. This meiping, which is the current lot, became the cover piece for the 1987 Tianminlou exhibition, featuring prominently in posters and banners lining the exhibition (fig. 1).
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