A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

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A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely painted in vivid blue tones in imitation of 'heaping and piling', with plantain and bamboo growing beside rocks issuing from grassy mounds, all between a band of ruyi lappets at the base and a band of knobbed scroll bordered by upright leaves and a stylized ruyi collar at the waisted, flaring neck
11in. (28cm.) high

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Compare to a Qianlong marked vase of this design in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, pl. 12, and in the Museum's Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain, 1986, Catalogue, no. 72.

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