A RARE BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL PEAR-SHAPED VASE, yuhuchun, painted in imported cobalt with rectangular panels of floral sprays, above a cash-band and lotus panels, the shoulder with four panels of pearl and cloud motif and the flaring neck with four slender plantain leaves, a band of classic scroll inside the rim, the foot flaring with double lines (foot polished, glaze worn),

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL PEAR-SHAPED VASE, yuhuchun, painted in imported cobalt with rectangular panels of floral sprays, above a cash-band and lotus panels, the shoulder with four panels of pearl and cloud motif and the flaring neck with four slender plantain leaves, a band of classic scroll inside the rim, the foot flaring with double lines (foot polished, glaze worn),

14th Century
25.5cm. high

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Cf. the Chinese prototype for this kind of blue and white octagonal yuhuchun at the Museum Pusat, Jakarta, illustrated, Oriental Ceramics, the World's Great Collections, no.288; and another example in the Metropolitan Museum, from the Herzman collection illustrated by S. Valenstein, op. cit., col.pl.56; also a similarly shaped bottle was sold in these rooms, 7 December 1984, lot 53

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