A WHITE-GLAZED MOLDED VASE

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A WHITE-GLAZED MOLDED VASE
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Thinly potted, the cylindrical sides molded with a wide frieze of composite foliate scroll between a band of narrow lappets on the tapered body below and a ruyi collar on the canted shoulder above, the tall, cylindrical neck molded with leaf tips divided by a double bowstring band incised with classic scroll, all below an everted mouth rim, covered inside and out with a glaze of milk-white tone, firing flaw in base--12 1/8in. (31.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the Fujian blanc-de-chine high-shouldered vase of this type with lion-mask handles set lower on the body included in the Inaugural Exhibiton of the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, England, 1993, vol. I, Chinese Ceramics, no. 166