A FINE BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EMMANUEL AND MARY FELLOUZIS

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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The bulbous body well painted in Ming style with simulated 'heaping and piling' with a wide band of composite foliate scroll set between a lappet border below and a triple bowstring band above, with bands of pendent ruyi heads and foliate meander on the shoulder, the neck decorated with a Greek key border below a band of upright leaf tips and with a wave border below the everted rim, with a band of classic scroll encircling the flared foot--15 in. (38cm.) high

Lot Essay

A pair of vases of this date and design with a less elaborate band of composite scroll, and with later-added Ottoman silver rim mounts, is illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. III, no. 2564. Compare, also, a very similar vase sold Christie's Swire, Hong Kong, March 20, 1990, lot 591