A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE VASE, HU

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

Of broad baluster form, painted in vivid tones of underglaze-blue simulating 'heaping and piling', the body with a wide band of scrolling lotus, each blossom enclosing a shou character at the centre, issuing from a continuous leafy vine supporting the ba jixiang above lotus lappets and below scrollwork and lotus-scroll at the neck, all between bands of cresting waves around the flaring rim and spreading foot set with moulded lion-mask and ring handles
20 in. (50.9 cm.) high

Lot Essay

An identical vase in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, is illustrated in the Catalogue, Part 1, col. pl. 58.

A similar piece was included in the Min Chiu Society Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Anthology of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1985, Catalogue, no. 185; another is illustrated by du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 202, pl. 1.

A vase of this pattern sold in these Rooms, 2 May 1994, lot 655.

(US$30,000-40,000)

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