A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE HU-FORM VASE

THE PROPERTY OF AN ASIAN COLLECTOR

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE HU-FORM VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Well painted in Ming style with 'heaped and piled' effect, around the lower body with a broad band of foliate scroll bearing eight large blossoms, between waves around the base and a ruyi collar at the angled shoulders, the upper body with similar bands of waves, floral bands and pendant trefoils, the wave pattern repeated on the tubular handles and mouth rim
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. William Seri Collection

Lot Essay

Previously sold in these Rooms, 16 January 1989, lot 643; and again in our New York Rooms, 21 September 2000, lot 349.

An identical vase was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 63. Another hu-shaped vase of this design but potted with an upright rather than flared mouth rim, is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of he Ch'ing Dynasty, Book 1, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1968, pl. 3.

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