Details A RARE WUCAI MEIPING AND COVERLATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURYThe meiping is painted with a continuous scene of numerous figures set in a luscious garden with a pavilion, depicting a story from the novel Romance of the Western Chamber. The cover is decorated with fruits, flowers, lingzhi and bamboo emerging next to rocks, and surmounted by a bud-form finial.11 1/2 in. (29.3 cm.) high Provenance William Cleverly Alexander (1840-1916) CollectionSold at Sotheby’s London, 6 May 1931, lot 170John Sparks, London, May/June 1931, as recorded in the RHRP ledgerThe Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection, no. 240 Conditions of sale