QIANLONG SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FINE MING STYLE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, MEIPING
QIANLONG SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Finely pencilled in inky-blue tones with scholars conversing on either side of an ornamental rock within a garden setting between a terraced pavillion and two attendants before a low garden wall, the scene divided by ruyi-shaped clouds between a border of lappets alternating with those containing pendent pomegranate at the base and triangular plantain leaves above, the shoulder with a border of overlaping mallow-flower petals, the straight neck with ruyi-shaped scrolling clouds, each framed by double-line bands, hairline crack to rim restored, original firing faults to body, wear
8½ in. (21.6cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See a near identical Ming example in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Kodansha Series, vol. 9, fig. 107; The Freer example is most probably the one illustrated by Geng Baochang, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, no. 76, where he mentions another similar example in the Canton Museum.

Also see an original Chenghua example, sold in Christie's Hong Kong, Important Chinese Ceramics, Monday, 31 October 1994, lot 553.

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