QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

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A BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE HEXAGONAL VASE, HU
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
The body finely painted with two continuous bands of lotus scroll separated by a border of crashing waves above pendent ruyi-head lappets and pendent jewels, the neck and tubular handles painted in a similar manner below a border of floral scroll and pendent ruyi heads along the mouth rim, all supported on a recessed, flaring foot of conforming shape painted with floral scroll below ruyi-head and lappet borders
13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Christie's, London, 25 July 1977, lot 52.

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Lot Essay

A Qianlong period vase of this form, although with different decoration, was included in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1986, no. 68. Other related examples are illustrated by X. Ma, ed., Beauty of Ceramics: Blue and White Porcelain, Taipei, 1993, pl. 154, and by Misugi Takatoshi, Blue and White Ceramics of the World, vol. 3, Kyoto, 1982, pls. 68a-c.

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