A FINE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, HU

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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, HU
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

In archaic bronze hu form, finely painted around the body with a band of continuous lotus scrolls above another of composite floral scrolls, all divided by raised double-moulded line borders and interrupted by a pair of monster-masks suspending loop 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 upright elaborate plantain leaves below a further wave border at the rim
9 7/8 in. (25.6 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

A Qianlong vase of the same pattern and almost the same size is in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in the Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, 1992, pl.2; and another Qianlong example was sold in these Rooms, 30 October 1995, lot 666.

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