A LARGE MING BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD VASE

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A LARGE MING BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
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The lower square section painted on each side with a large roundel enclosing an image of shoulao among several smaller shou-roundels among stylised clouds above rocks and waves, the waist, upper globular section and neck adorned with similar medallions and whisps of clouds in four separate bands, minor rim chips
25½in. (65cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the similar vase in the Matsuoka Art Museum, Japan, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol.I, p.289, fig.868; another very similar example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, fig.159.

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