A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE VASE

IMPORTANT MING AND QING BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN AND HARDSTONE CARVINGS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION MONDAY, 30 OCTOBER 1995 AT 10:30 A.M. PRECISELY CERAMICS (LOTS 655-669)

Details

A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE VASE
ENCIRCLED XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK, YONGZHENG

Painted in strong blue tones with simulated 'heaping and piling', the compressed globular body with two bands of scrolling lotus below a band of stylised stiff leaves at the neck with pendent trefoils and a key-fret border at the broad mouth repeated at the foot
8 3/4in. (22.2cm.) high, box

Provenance

The T. Y. Chao Family Collection, sold in Hong Kong, 18 November 1986, lot 84

Exhibited

Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, Catalogue, no. 85

Lot Essay

Two other vases of this design are known, one sold in Hong Kong, 21 May 1980, lot 190, the other sold in New York, 5 May 1979, lot 4.

The shape of this vase probably derives from Tang white-glazed jars, cf. an example illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics I, pl. 140; this shape was also popular in bronze in the Tang period.

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