Chinese porcelain 'Mei Ping' vase with baluster body

An image of 'Mei Ping' vase with baluster body. Production Place: China. Finely drawn and painted in dark blue with two figures in a garden scene flanked by pine trees and rocks. The glaze is high piled in places. The base has a broad band of stiff leaves, the shoulders have reserve barbed medallions of lotus flowers on a ground of petals, the small neck is decorated with miniature symbols. Hard-paste porcelain, height 33.7 cm, 1400-1499. Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

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'Mei Ping' vase with baluster body. Production Place: China. Finely drawn and painted in dark blue with two figures in a garden scene flanked by pine trees and rocks. The glaze is high piled in places. The base has a broad band of stiff leaves, the shoulders have reserve barbed medallions of lotus flowers on a ground of petals, the small neck is decorated with miniature symbols. Hard-paste porcelain, height 33.7 cm, 1400-1499. Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

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Accession Number: C.1-1957
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 778 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 443.57kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2012:10:16 15:51:01

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15th Century baluster vase blue and white ceramics Chinese figures Fitz_AA glazed hard-paste porcelain lotus lotus flower mei ping meiping Ming Dynasty porcelain studio ceramics vase

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