A RARE EARLY BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL PEAR-SHAPED VASE

YUAN AND MING BLUE AND WHITE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A RARE EARLY BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL PEAR-SHAPED VASE
YUAN DYNASTY

Each facet of the lower body painted in inky blue and 'heaping and piling' with a flower spray within double-line borders, between narrow bands of classic scroll, with eight petal lappets below and four lappets pendant from a band of squared scrolls and ascending leaf tips on the neck above, with a further band of scrolls on the slightly flared foot and a band of classic scroll on the interior of the everted mouth, mouth restored--11 1/4 (28.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the similarly shaped and decorated vase excavated in the Philippines and illustrated by Feng Xian Ming, Essays on Chinese Old Ceramics, Forbidden City Publishing, 1987, fig. 10, p. 44. A recently excavated faceted vase, also decorated with flower sprigs but with different decoration on the neck, is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, pl. 8, and now in the Dean County Museum, Jiangxi