A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

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A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The globular body painted in vivid blue tones in imitation of 'heaping and piling' with plantain and bamboo growing beside rocks on grassy mounds, below a band of foliate scroll in-between upright leaves and a pendent ruyi collar at the waisted neck, the base with a band of lotus lappets encircling the splayed foot, decorated with a band of demi-florettes
11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm.) high, box

Provenance

An Asian private collection, previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 23 March 1993, lot 801

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Lot Essay

A similar Qianlong example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei is illustrated in The National Palace Museum: Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, Taipei, 1968, pl. 12; another vase with Qianlong mark sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2007, lot 1468.

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