A FINE AND RARE ARCHAISTIC BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' VASE
A FINE AND RARE ARCHAISTIC BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' VASE
A FINE AND RARE ARCHAISTIC BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' VASE
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A RARE ARCHAISTIC BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' VASE

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A RARE ARCHAISTIC BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' VASE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
13 in. (33 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
Provenance
Kunryudo, Tokyo, acquired by the current owner in the 1970s
Exhibited
Fukuyama Castle Museum, 70 Selected Masterpieces of Chinese Porcelain, 21 October to 26 November 1989, p.80, no. 65

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Lot Essay

The vase is skillfully potted in the form of an archaic bronze lei, such as an example from the Shang to Western Zhou periods in the National Palace Museum, Taipei (fig. 1). Vases of this form were first made in porcelain in the Yongzheng regin.

Most vases of this form are found in monochrome, see a Yongzheng-marked Ru-type glazed example from Yamanaka, sold at Poly Beijing, 7 June 2021, lot 5015; and a sky-blue glazed example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Selected Porcelain of the Flourishing Qing Dynasty at the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1994, p. 215 (fig.2). It is rare to find a Yongzheng blue and white vase of this form, although a very similar example is in the Wang Xing Lou Collection, see The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors. The Wang Xing Lou Collection, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 40-41, no. 7 (fig.3).

The present lot is accompanied by a Japanese wood box with an inscription signed by Fujio Koyama (1900-1975).

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