Title, date and medium were taken from label written in 2007 by Jennifer Casler Price, Curator for Asian and Non-Western Art at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas

A Meiping shaped vase, in Ming style, with everted mouth, waisterd and narrow neck, wide shoulders tapering off to a smaller and raised base, showing a white body on the underglazed base rim, decorated on white glaze with underglazed blue to shoe on the body large sprays of flowering pomegranates and peonies between stiff leaf borders at the bottom and a shaped petal border interspersed with leaves on the shoulders, and between double parallel solid blue bands, and on the neck and reserved on the lappets, four floral sprays with leaves radiating from a central flower head. On the base is a six character seal script Qianlong (1736-1995) mark. The glaze shows the slightly pitted surface, and the “heaped and piled” effect of the blue color seen is associated with 18th century Qianlong blue and white ware imitating Ming pieces. The Quality is termed fine.

Meiping literally translated means plum vase since into the small mouth of the vase a slender plum blossom would have been inserted.

This object has the following keywords:

• Asian
• Chinese
• Decorative Art

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