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

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE HU-FORM VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase is well painted in the Ming style with 'heaped and piled' effect around the body with a broad band of foliate scroll bearing eight large blossoms between a band of waves below and a ruyi border at the edge of the sloping shoulder, which is decorated with a wave band and continues into the neck which is decorated with two bands of flower scroll, the uppermost band interrupted by the pair of wave-decorated tubular handles, all below a band of trefoils pendent from a further wave border at the rim.
20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Christie's New York, 1 June 1979, lot 130.

Lot Essay

An identical blue and white hu-form vase was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2 November 1984 - 6 January 1985, no. 63. See, also, another identical vase sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 May 2010, lot 1907, and a further example, also sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2005, lot 1480. Another hu-shaped vase of this design, but potted with an upright rather than flared mouth rim, is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book 1, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1968, pl. 3.

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