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

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A BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE BOTTLE VASE
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Painted in bright shades of cobalt blue in the fifteenth century style with simulated 'heaping and piling', the globular body with six large flower heads borne on meandering leafy scrolls above a petal lappet border, the shoulder encircled by a band of foliate scroll above a band of pendent ruyi heads, with overlapping upright leaves on the waisted neck set between key-fret and ruyi borders below a band of waves at the flared mouth, all supported on a short straight foot with a band of classic scroll
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high

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See a similar vase in the National Palace Museum, illustrated by van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, The Netherlands, 1977, pl. 47. Also compare an almost identical vase, sold in our New York rooms, 16-17 September 2010, lot 1476.

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