Lot Essay
A similar example sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2009, lot 1898.
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Details
A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE CYLINDRICAL JAR AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Well painted in the Ming-style to simulate 'heaping and piling', the main register on the mid-body decorated with five lotus blooms, each flower encircled by its stem and set within a star-pattern formed by ten rhomboid petals, all against a complex geometric pattern-ground and bordered by breaking waves, between bands of scrolling lotus, the waisted neck with further crested waves, supported on a low foot ring designed with half-flowerheads, the domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a globular finial
11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm.) high, box
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Well painted in the Ming-style to simulate 'heaping and piling', the main register on the mid-body decorated with five lotus blooms, each flower encircled by its stem and set within a star-pattern formed by ten rhomboid petals, all against a complex geometric pattern-ground and bordered by breaking waves, between bands of scrolling lotus, the waisted neck with further crested waves, supported on a low foot ring designed with half-flowerheads, the domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a globular finial
11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm.) high, box
Provenance
A private collection, Hong Kong
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