Vase of meiping form in white porcelain enamelled in blue underglaze with decoration in the Ming style, China, 18th century The body is continuously decorated on two registers with fruits and branches of pomegranates, peaches, persimmons and lychees. The shoulder is decorated with a radiating pattern of stylized ruyi heads and the foot with a frieze of banana leaves. Height : 34 cm Provenance: Sotheby's, Hong-Kong, May 1985, n°105. Similar: - Neave-Hill, W.E.R., Chinese Ceramics, pl. 160. - Reitlinger Collection catalog, no. 120, in the Ashmolean Museum. - Clarke and Edward T. Chow Collection, Sotheby's, 21st May, 1980, lot 164. The decoration of this vase is based on a classical 15th-century design and the underglaze blue glaze showing small dark blue dots imitates the effects called "heaped and piled", is also typical of the Ming period. 十八世纪 - 青花仿明如意垂肩折枝瑞果纹梅瓶 Private collection from Paris - lots 78 to 127, 219 and 220