A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD VASE

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A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The pear-shaped body painted in a rich blue tone with the 'three abundances', peach, pomegranate and persimmon alternating with their corresponding flowers on leafy branches issuing from lingzhi fungus above a band of lotus panels and cresting waves at the splayed foot, the shoulder with six lotus panels enclosing double-tiered flame motifs above a raised rib, key pattern and pendent ruyi-head bands, the bulbous head with a continuous camellia scroll below a key-pattern border
11 in. (28 cm.) high, box

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Previously sold in Hong Kong, 19 November 1986, lot 225.

Cf. a similar Qianlong vase in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in Blue-and-White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, pl. 5; one illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, no. 61; and another example included in the Exhibition of Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, Catalogue, no. 91.

(US$35,000-45,000)

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