A RARE WUCAI MEIPING AND COVER

Lot 2803
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HKD 378 000
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Lot 2803 | A RARE WUCAI MEIPING AND COVER
Valeur estimée
HKD 300 000 – 500 000
A RARE WUCAI MEIPING AND COVER

LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

The meiping is painted with a continuous scene of numerous figures set in a luscious garden with a pavilion, depicting a story from the novel Romance of the Western Chamber. The cover is decorated with fruits, flowers, lingzhi and bamboo emerging next to rocks, and surmounted by a bud-form finial.

11 1/2 in. (29.3 cm.) high





Provenance

William Cleverly Alexander (1840-1916) Collection

Sold at Sotheby’s London, 6 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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