A LARGE MING BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD 'SHOU' VASE

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A LARGE MING BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD 'SHOU' VASE
JIAJING

The lower body painted in strong blue tones with four roundels containing young boys playing on a terrace on a ground of stylised shou-character roundels and clouds above rocks and breaking waves around the base, the upper body with four roundels containing fruiting peach trees growing in the form of stylised shou characters on a ground of tasselled and beaded shou-pendant roundels, the neck with the four characters fu shou qi tian, happiness and long life as in Heaven (rim hairline)
24 1/2 in.(62.2 cm.) high, stand, box

Lot Essay

Previously sold in London, 13 June 1989, lot 227.

A similar example is illustrated by J.A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 86, no. 29.477. An example with stylised shou trees in the lower roundels, from the Bloxham Collection is illustrated by J. Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 159. Compare also the example with a square lower body and decorated with Shoulao roundels in the Museum Pusat, Jakarta, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 3, no. 227.

(US$16,000-20,000)

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