Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1573 - 1619; Classification(s): porcelain, vase, throwing, porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze-blue; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.695-1991]
Description: Meiping vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze-blue. The vase has a short, flaring neck with everted rim. It has rounded, sloping shoulders narrowing in and flaring gently out to the foot. The low, inverted foot has a flat, recessed, glazed base. The neck is decorated with plantain leaves, and the shoulders are decorated with four quatrefoil cartouches enclosing flower heads reserved on a washed blue-scale ground. The centre panel contains a horse, three soldiers delivering a message to two scholars seated at a table, a maid on a terrace, and cloud scrolls. Below is a band of horses leaping amongst waves, mountains, and three ribbon and lozenge emblems.
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