A FINE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, HU

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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, HU
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Of archaic bronze hu form, vividly painted around the body with a band of continuous lotus scroll above another of composite floral scroll, all divided by raised double-moulded line borders and interrupted by a pair of lion-mask ring-handles in relief on the shoulders, the base with a broad band of swirling and cresting waves above the slightly spreading foot with stiff lappets, the waisted neck with overlapping stylized leaves below a further wave border at the rim 9 7/8in. (25.2cm.) high, box

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Previously sold in Hong Kong, 19 November 1986, lot 234.

Cf. a Qianlong vase of the same size and pattern in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in the Catalogue, Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, pl. 2; another example sold in these Rooms, 31 March 1992, lot 604.

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