Lot 295
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A Rare Blue and White Pear-Shaped Vase, Yuhuchunping
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A Rare Blue and White Pear-Shaped Vase, Yuhuchunping

YUAN DYNASTY

Details
A Rare Blue and White Pear-Shaped Vase, Yuhuchunping
Yuan Dynasty
The well-potted body painted in cobalt blue of inky tone with a lotus pond forming a frieze between narrow borders of key-pattern scroll and diaper pattern, with a band of petal lappets above the flared foot and another at the base of the waisted neck below a band of upright leaf tips, the interior of the flared mouth rim painted with classic scroll
10in. (25.4cm.) high
Provenance
Eskenazi, London, no. 9502.

Lot Essay

Two very similar vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art are both illustrated by S. Valenstein, one in The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1992, p. 61, no. 55, the other in A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 ed., col. pl. 13, no. 16.

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