A FINE LARGE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, HU

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A FINE LARGE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, HU
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely painted in a rich underglaze blue with simulated 'heaping and piling', the lower body decorated with a broad band of composite foliate meander between a ruyi-collar above and a border of foam-crested waves below, repeated on the flared shoulder below a band of scrolling lotus around the base of the neck, separated by a band of pendant trefoils from another band of foliate meander interrupted by the two wave-decorated tubular handles, all below a decorative collar and a furthur band of cresting waves around the rim, the whole raised on a slightly flared foot encircled by a band of petal lappets, all within double-line borders
20 1/4 in. (51.5 cm.) high, box

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Previously sold in Hong Kong, 15 May 1990, lot 169.

An identical example was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Qing Ceramics from the Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, col. pl. 63. Another hu -shaped vase with upright cylindrical handles (55 cm.) high, also with wide bands of scrolling flowers, but different bands at the foot, shoulder and neck, is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Book I, col. pl. 3. Compare a similar vase sold in these Rooms, 17 January 1989, lot 643.

(US$100,000-130,000)

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