DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

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A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
The globular body is painted in vivid blue tones in imitation of 'heaping and piling' with plantain and bamboo growing beside rocks on grassy mounds, below a band of foliate scroll in-between upright leaves and a pendent ruyi collar at the waisted neck.
11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm.) high, stand

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Compare to a similar Qianlong-marked vase in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, Hong Kong, 1968, pp. 44-45, pl.12, and included in the Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain, Taipei, 1986, Catalogue no. 72. Blue and white vases of this form and design continued to be made during the reigns of Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu. A Jiaqing-marked example is also offered from the YC Chen Collection, lot 1938.

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