A BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE PEAR-SHAPED GARLIC-MOUTH VASE

JIAQING SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

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A BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE PEAR-SHAPED GARLIC-MOUTH VASE
JIAQING SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
Finely painted in early fifteenth century style with blossoming branches alternating with blossoming and fruiting branches of peach, pomegranate and gourd, between a band of upright petals below and ruyi and key-fret bands around the shoulder, the base of the neck with a band of scroll-filled petals lappets and the bulbous mouth encircled by a band of chrysanthemum scroll, the spreading foot ringed by spume-flecked waves
11¼ in. (28.6 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Many Qianlong-marked examples of these vases have been published, including one in The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol. II, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 88, no. 61; and another by Geng Baocheng illustrated by, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 118, fig. 157.

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