AN ANNAMESE BLUE AND WHITE LOBED PEAR-SHAPED VASE

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AN ANNAMESE BLUE AND WHITE LOBED PEAR-SHAPED VASE
14TH/15TH CENTURY

Well-potted, delicately and finely painted in good tones of underglaze blue with a wide central band of oval panels filled in with alternating cross-hatching and foliate scrolls, above upright lappets at the base and a band of similarly decorated pendent petal-form panels at the sloping shoulder, all divided by narrow scroll, floral and ruyi-head bands, single ruyi heads decorating the interior of the mouth, rim restored--10 5/8in. (27cm.) high

Lot Essay

For other Yuan-inspired blue and white bottle vases, see Adrian Joseph, Chinese and Annamese Ceramics, p. 172, no. 106 and p. 174, no. 107, and an octagonal example in the Museum Pusat, Jakarta, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 3, no. 288