Chinese Ming Dynasty porcelain Huluping vase. Double gourd resemblance, bulbous lower section converging into a lemon-shape midsection and finishing into a slender bottleneck at the top. The bottom forms a substantial ring-base with a flat offset face. Delicately decorated around the exterior with variegate tones and shades of cobalt blue, with glazed elderly sage figurines in a terraced landscape. A trotting deer moves through a mountainous landscape surrounding the midsection, and the collar is interspersed with floral blooms shooting upward toward the opening. The glaze appearance on the blue painting resembled the texture of an orange peel "ju-pi" (chu-pi) or a chicken skin. The glaze terminates slightly before the foot rim, showing a mixture of creme-colored clay and white glaze flecks left after the firing process. Revealed the pale-creme ground with burnt orange and darker spots in the firing with some white glazed spots on foot rim.


Mark on base, a six underglaze blue seal script -KaiShu- characters enclosed within double fine ring, Made in The Years of ChongZhen Reign Period of Great Ming (1611-1644).

Dimensions: 14-1/4" H x 7-5/8" Dia.

PROVENANCE: From the estate and inheritance of Cecil Knight Jr. (1933- 2017).

He was gifted these items from his parents who had lived abroad in the late 1800s.
Cecil Knight Sr. professional experience was in foreign property acquisition for major corporations, trips to find and evaluate a piece of property often would take 6 months or more. This time while in foreign countries also allowed the couple to search out and collect highly sought after rare and unique antiques that they would bring back as gifts for his family members and add into their private collection.
Over many years they had collected more than 240 Chinese items as well as almost 1,500 European works of art and treasures.

The following Item(s) from the estate and inheritance of Cecil Knight Jr. offered at auction catalog listing from Lot-23 through Lot-60.

Over all in EXCELLENT Condition; With normal anomalies in nature, sign of minor scratch. No chip, No crack, No hairline, No repaired.

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