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Bow Vase
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This item has been sold
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Dates
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Circa 1756
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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England
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Description
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A very rare and early Bow Mei-p'ing vase painted with a Long Eliza and The Banded Hedge amongst scattered Kakiemon flowers. The reverse is painted with a Kakiemon pattern of trailing plants and flowers, the delicate palette predominantly in orange
The vase shape takes its inspiration from a Chinese Mei-p'ing vase, which originally dates from the Sung dynasty (a shape also popular in Japan and Korea). It has a tapering body ending in a small-necked mouth. Mei, the Chinese word for prunus, or plum blossom, and p'ing for vase, so when connected literally means 'prunus vase'
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