A Small Late Wanli Baluster Vase

Late Wanli c.1600-1620

A Small Blue and White Ming Porcelain Baluster vase, Wanli Period (1573-1620). Painted in silvery blue using the ‘Pencilled’ style with bamboo, chrysanthemum and lotus. The lower register with the ‘Three Islands’ emerging from the ‘Green Sea Wave’ .The ‘Three Islands’ emerging from the ‘green sea wave’ are a very auspicious design, and to Taoists, it represents the Taoist Paradise Island believed to lurk somewhere off the eastern coast of China. Sometimes they are named as Mount Penglai, Mount Fangzhang, and Mount Yingzhou, they were associated with immortality.

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Condition
Some deep fritting to the rim. As with the pair we sold that came from the collection of Reginald Howard Reed Palmer MC, DL (1898-1970) the luting line is visible, for details of those vases see below the Photograph Gallery.
Size
Height 11.7 cm (4 1/2 inches).
Provenance
N/A
Stock number
25576
References
For a pair of similar Ming porcelain vases see : Yuan and Ming Blue and White From Jiangxi (Various authors Jiangxi Provincial Museum and the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,2002) Item 97.
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A Pair of Similar Ming Porcelain Vases

Robert McPherson Antiques Sold Archive - 24259.

From the collection of Reginald Howard Reed Palmer MC, DL (1898-1970). He was one of the foremost collectors of his day. He started collecting in 1924 and exhibited widely. He began selling his collection in 1962 and, following several sales after death, 19 early blue and white porcelain objects were sold in Hong Kong. They were then purchased by the parents of the last owner.
A pair of blue and white Ming porcelain baluster vases, Wanli Period (1573-1620). Painted in the 'Pencilled' style with bamboo, chrysanthemum and lotus. The lower register with the 'Three Islands' emerging from the 'Green Sea Wave' . From the collection of Reginald Howard Reed Palmer MC, DL (1898-1970). He was one of the foremost collectors of his day. He started collecting in 1924 and exhibited widely. He began selling his collection in 1962 and, following several sales after death, 19 early blue and white porcelain objects were sold in Hong Kong. They were then purchased by the parents of the last owner.