PROVENANCE: Important Private Collection, Taipei The classic yuhuchun shape was favoured by the Hongwu Emperor (1368-1398) and subsequently adorned with a variety of decorative bands, a style that continued to be developed and modified in the succeeding Yongle (1403- 1424) and Xuande (1426-1435) reigns. This lot is beautifully potted with a pear-shaped body rising from a splayed foot, elegantly sweeping up to a waisted neck flaring at the rim, the exterior boldly painted with large peony blooms borne on a leafy meander above overlapping petal lappets, below upright plantain leaves, an undulating lingzhi scroll and pendent trefoils encircling the neck, all divided by line borders repeated at the rim and the foot, covered overall in an unctuous glaze with a faint bluish tinge.
The classic yuhuchun shape was favoured by the Hongwu
Emperor (1368-1398) and subsequently adorned with a
variety of decorative bands, a style that continued to be
developed and modified in the succeeding Yongle (1403-
1424) and Xuande (1426-1435) reigns. This lot is beautifully
potted with a pear-shaped body rising from a splayed foot,
elegantly sweeping up to a waisted neck flaring at the
rim, the exterior boldly painted with large peony blooms
borne on a leafy meander above overlapping petal lappets,
below upright plantain leaves, an undulating lingzhi scroll
and pendent trefoils encircling the neck, all divided by line
borders repeated at the rim and the foot, covered overall in
an unctuous glaze with a faint bluish tinge.
PROVENANCE: Important Private Collection, Taipei