A FINE PAIR OF MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD VASES

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A FINE PAIR OF MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD VASES
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Each pear-shaped body is exquisitely painted in a rich blue tone with leafy branches of the 'three abundances', peach, pomegranate and persimmon, alternating with their corresponding flowers, above a band of upright lappets and cresting waves around the splayed foot, the shoulder with bands of trefoils, key-frets and lotus panels enclosing flame motifs, and the bulbous head with a camellia scroll below a further key-pattern border
11 1/8 in. (28.5 cm.) high, box (2)

Provenance

Messrs S. Marchant and Son

Lot Essay

Similar examples of these vases have been published: one in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in Blue-and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 5; one illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, part II, p. 88, no. 61; and another included in the Exhibition of Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 91. Cf. also a vase which was sold in these Rooms, 31 October 2000, lot 897.

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