A LATE MING DYNASTY LONGQUAN CéLADON-GLAZED BALUSTER VASE, MEIPING
21,5 cm high Of slender shape with a short cylindrical neck, overall covered with a crackled olive-green glaze.
Provenance: Acquired before 1975. A similar vase is in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (see R. Kerr – L. Mengoni, Chinese Export Ceramics, London 2011, p. 114, n. 164); see also J. Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, Londra 2001, p. 478, n. 16:41.