A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted in vivid blue tones in imitation of 'heaping and piling', with plantain and bamboo growing beside rocks issuing from grassy mounds, all between a band of ruyi lappets at the base and a band of knobbed scroll bordered by upright leaves and a stylized ruyi collar at the waisted, flaring neck, a band of lotus encircling the foot--11 3/8in. (28.9cm.) high

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Cf. a similar vase painted with this design in the National Palace Museum, Taipei illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, pl.12; and in the Museum's Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain, 1986, Catalogue, no. 72

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