AN UNUSUAL LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASE, MING DYNASTY, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

AN UNUSUAL LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASE
MING DYNASTY, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
The body is decorated with a broad band of peony scroll between decorative borders, beneath the tall, flared neck decorated with cranes in flight amidst peaches borne on leafy branches and flanked by simple, curved handles suspending fixed rings.
24 ½ in. (62.3 cm.) high, cloth box

Provenance

Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 23 May 1972, lot 133.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 23-24 May 1978, lot 44.
Christie's London, 7 December 1984, lot 894.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN