A FINE BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE

GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Painted in Ming style with simulated 'heaping and piling', the globular body with a broad band of composite foliate scroll above a band of petal lappets, and repeated on the shoulder above a band of pendent trefoils, with a band of key fret encircling the base of the neck which is encircled by upright leaves and a further band of trefoils pendent below a border of froth-capped waves, the slightly spreading foot encircled by a band of classic scroll
15 1/8 in. (38.3 cm.) high

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Compare the similar Guangxu-marked vase in the National Palace Museum, illustrated by van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, The Netherlands, 1977, pl. 47. See, also, the almost identical vase, sold in these rooms, 19 September 2007, lot 322.

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