A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, HU

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, HU
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Of broad baluster form, painted in vivid tones of underglaze blue on the body with a wide band of scrolling lotus set below the bajixiang divided by a pair of applied taotie mask-and-ring handles at the shoulder, each lotus centered by a shou medallion, with a band of upright lappets below and a band of wave pattern encircling the spreading foot, the waisted neck with a wide register of further lotus bordered by a band of stylized floral sprays and further wave pattern at the flaring mouth--19½in. (49.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

See an identical vase from the S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, exhibited Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, Catalogue Part I, col. pl. 58

A similar piece was included in the Min Chiu Society Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Anthology of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1985, Catalogue no. 185; and another example is illustrated by Anthony du Boulay in Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 202, pl. 1

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