Blue and White Bottle Vase
Le-so Dynasty 15th - 16th c. Vietnam
Height: 23.5 cm
A Yuhuchun-ping form bottle vase with pear shaped body and long neck leading to a trumpet form mouth rim. The body is decorated with a band of Ruyi petals around the bottom half, and oblong cartouches with alternating wave and water plant designs. The upper body has downward facing Ruyi petals with wave and floral patterns, set below a narrow band of petals and a taller band of lotus leaves up the neck rim. The cobalt blue used in this decoration is of the finest quality Persian origins.
Similar piece in “Vietnamese and Chinese Ceramics Used in the Tea Ceremony” by Hiromu Honda and Noriki Shimazu” Oxford University Press, 1993. No. 37
Another example from the Seattle Museum of Art in “Vietnamese Ceramics and Separate Tradition” Stevenson - Guy, Avery Press 1997. No. 229
Condition: A large, old repair to the mouth-rim and neck
Provenance:
Robert P. Griffing Collection. (Honolulu academy of Art Director 1947-1963)
John R. Menke Collection
