• Dimension: Height: 11 3/8 in (28.9 cm) Diameter: 14 in (35.6 cm)
• Estimate From: $3500
• Estimate To: $5500

Ming Dynasty or earlier. Well potted with broad foot rising to a wide rounded shoulder below a short cylindrical neck with slightly thickened mouth rim, the body painted with a broad band of scrolling peonies borne on a continuous undulating leafy stem, the neck with wave band, the shoulder a peony scroll, and the base a petal band, the base left unglazed.

Provenance: Property from a private Dallas, Texas collection
來源: 德州達拉斯私人藏家收藏。此罐造型別緻，紋飾纖麗典雅，刻畫筆法精準流暢，製作工藝精細，在粗獷樸雅面貌風行一時的作品中，屬別開生面的上乘之作。此罐唇口，短頸，溜肩，鼓腹，圈足。罐身胎體白潤細堅，釉面肥腴，膩白閃青。通體以青花繪製五層紋飾，頸部繪海浪紋一週，肩部繪纏枝蓮紋一週，腹部繪以纏枝牡丹紋一週，腹下部與足脛部之間繪一圈卷草紋作分隔，足脛部繪蓮瓣紋一週。其青花髮色深沈含蓄，藍中泛黑，品貌俱佳，時代特徵明顯，精品佳作，唯有口沿一處殘缺，略帶遺憾。