Lot 977
977
AN UNUSUAL BLUE-ENAMELED BALUSTER VASE
AN UNUSUAL BLUE-ENAMELED BALUSTER VASE
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AN UNUSUAL BLUE-ENAMELED BALUSTER VASE

QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON-RED AND POSSIBLY LATE IN THE PERIOD

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AN UNUSUAL BLUE-ENAMELED BALUSTER VASE
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON-RED AND POSSIBLY LATE IN THE PERIOD
The body is thickly enameled with three five-clawed dragons writhing amidst clouds, above rocks and crashing waves below and beneath a key-fret border that encircles the mouth rim.
9 ¾ in. (24.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (1822-1904) Collection, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1879.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

The present vase is related to a group of Qianlong-marked, blue-enameled porcelain vessels which include a moonflask also in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989 ed., p. 270, no. 279, and a circular box and cover from the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by S. Peirson and A. Barnes in A Collector's Vision: Ceramics for the Qianlong Emperor, London, 2002, p. 62, no. 52.

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