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  • Lot n° 815 China, Ming dynasty, 15th century H. 31,3 cm The slender body, rising from a broad foot to a rounded shoulder and a short, narrow, tapering neck, is freely painted in a windswept style around the outside with an immortal in a landscape beneath a band of rolling foliage and above a band of rising leaves. From an important Spanish private collection, acquired at Sotheby's London, 10.11.2010, lot 29 The painting style on this vase is the well-known 'windswept' style. A smaller meiping with a similar design is in the Shanghai Museum, and is illustrated in Lustre Revealed: Jingdezhen Porcelain Wares in the Mid Fifteenth Century China, Shanghai, 2019, p. 336, no. 236. Another example with a similar scene beneath a band of mythological animals and waves from the Tianjin Museum is illustrated ibid., p. 337, no. 237. - Restored drilled hole in the base, very short hairline crack on the inside of the mouth

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