A RARE CANTON-ENAMEL HEXAGONAL VASE, COVER AND STAND

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A RARE CANTON-ENAMEL HEXAGONAL VASE, COVER AND STAND
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The vase of hexagonal cross-section is cast with a compressed body, elaborately enamelled with large lotus blooms surrounded by smaller scrolling lotus blossoms in-between a border of pendent plantain leaves above the stepped foot and below the waisted neck, flanked on two sides by a pair of ruyi-shaped handles each with fruiting peach branches, the vase is surmounted by a dome-shaped lid atop with a finial modelled as three finger-citruses of varying sizes; the separately cast waisted stand is raised on ruyi feet with the sunken flat upper side enamelled with melons issuing a branch against a white ground (minor areas overpainted)
17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm.) overall height

Lot Essay

Cf. a large elaborately enamelled famille rose hexagonal vase from the W. T. Walters Collection, illustrated by Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, col. pl. XX.

(US$40,000-50,000)

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