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A VERY RARE MING-STYLE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND YELLOW FACETED VASE

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A VERY RARE MING-STYLE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND YELLOW FACETED VASE
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely painted in washed tones of cobalt and simulated 'heaping and piling' with a continuous leafy meander of morning glories in various stages of bloom around the square body with faceted angles, the splayed foot with a cloud collar border with alternating large and small ruyi-heads, the cylindrical neck with lappets enclosing floral-sprays, below a pendent ruyi border and a key-fret border in green, all flanked by two horned lion-mask handles in relief issuing rings (hairline to foot overpainted, tiny enamel flakes)
6 5/8 in. (16.2 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Only one other vase of this rare form in yellow and blue appears to have been published varying only slightly in decoration at the lappets around the neck, illustrated by Ayers in the Baur Collection Catalogue, vol. IV, no. A 577.

Vases of this pattern and form in blue and white are more commonly recorded, although they vary in size. Cf. the two in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, one a larger Yongzheng-marked vase included in the Museum's Special Exhibition of Hsuan-te Wares, 1980, Catalogue, no. 5; the other smaller with a Qianlong mark, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 6.

The shape and pattern are inspired from Xuande prototypes. Two are illustrated in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Special Exhibition of Hsuan-te Wares, op. cit, fig. 6 and 7.

(US$100,000-130,000)

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