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A similar example with a cover sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 31 May 2010, lot 2004
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QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
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A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE CYLINDRICAL JAR
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Painted in the Ming-style with simulated 'heaping and piling', the main register on the mid-body decorated with five lotus blooms, each flower encircled by its stem and set within a star-pattern formed by ten rhomboid petals, all against a complex geometric-pattern ground and bordered by breaking waves, between bands of scrolling lotus, the waisted neck with further crested waves, supported on a low foot ring designed with half-flowerheads
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Painted in the Ming-style with simulated 'heaping and piling', the main register on the mid-body decorated with five lotus blooms, each flower encircled by its stem and set within a star-pattern formed by ten rhomboid petals, all against a complex geometric-pattern ground and bordered by breaking waves, between bands of scrolling lotus, the waisted neck with further crested waves, supported on a low foot ring designed with half-flowerheads
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
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Caroline Allen
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