A FINE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, GUAN

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A FINE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, GUAN
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The oviform body painted with a wide band of large lotus blossoms enclosing shou characters issuing from a continuous leafy vine supporting the bajixiang above lotus lappets and below scrollwork and lotus-scroll at the neck, all between bands of cresting waves around the flaring rim and spreading foot, the shoulder set with a pair of moulded lion-mask ring handles (rim frits)--19 1/3in. (49.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

See an identical vase in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Catalogue, Part I, col. pl. 58.

A similar piece was included in the Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Anthology of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1985, Catalogue, no. 185; and another example is illustrated by A. du Boulay in Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 202, pl. 1

Cf. also the guan sold in these Rooms, 25 October 1993, lot 782

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