A BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE

TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1635-1640

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A BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1635-1640
The compressed bulbous body finely painted with three scholars and two soldiers accompanying an immortal offering a large peach to an elderly bearded sage, the sage's two attendants in the distance tending to his two-wheeled cart, the scene set within a lush garden setting with plantains and willows, all below auspicious emblems and tulips on the neck above, and below the central bulb encircled by lotus scroll
13½ in. (34.2 cm.) high, box, stand

Lot Essay

A blue and white Transitional period bottle vase of similar form and decoration was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 26 April 2004, lot 1040. See, also, the pair of vases in the British Museum, dated to the late Ming dynasty illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics, London, 2001, nos. 12:80 and 12:81.

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