A RARE SMALL MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE YELLOW-GROUND VASE

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A RARE SMALL MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE YELLOW-GROUND VASE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The cylindrical body is decorated in underglaze blue with simulated 'heaping and piling' with leafy lotus scroll on a yellow ground, all below a narrow band of classic scroll on the shoulder that has been covered with a green glaze.
3 5/8 in. (9.4 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Lot Essay

The shape and decoration of this small vase is similar to that of two blue and white vases, also with Yongzheng marks, but of larger size, one (10.7 cm.) sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 November 1985, lot 76, the other (11 cm.) at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2009, lot 1892. Another jar that is similar to the present jar, also with a yellow ground and green glaze on the classic scroll band on the shoulder, but of larger size (10.8 cm.), was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 1-2 November 1994, lot 224.

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