PROPERTY FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ART ACQUISITIONS FUND

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE JUE STAND

QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE JUE STAND
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The stand is molded with a central 'mountain' divided into three deep grooves to fit the legs of a jue, and is decorated on the sides with rocks emerging from crashing waves, below a double peach sprig on the top, all surrounded by four cranes in flight amidst clouds on the interior of the dish-form stand which is decorated on the exterior between the four feet with ruyi and peach sprays.
6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Herzman Collection.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, accessioned in 1980.

Lot Essay

A set of similar Qianlong-marked stands is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum and illustrated by R. Kerr in Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, no. 44. A Qianlong-marked blue and white jue and stand, similar to the present stand, is illustrated in The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum - The Chinaware Volume The First Part, Shenyang, 2008. pp. 072-3, no. 39.

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