A FINE AND RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE GLOBULAR VASE

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A FINE AND RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE GLOBULAR VASE
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted around the body in delicate blue tones with simulated 'heaping and piling' with six fruiting and flowering sprays, all between a band of ruyi lappets at the shoulder and short overlapping leaves at the foot
5in. (12.7cm.) high, box
Provenance
The R.F.A. Riesco Collection
Literature
Sir Harry Garner, Oriental Blue and White, pl. 75
Exhibited
O.C.S. Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, 14th to 19th Centuries, London, 1953, Catalogue no. 294

Lot Essay

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 24 November 1987, lot 68.

The fluid shape of this vase is especially pleasing and the restraint of the decoration enhances the effect of its form.

A covered Yongzheng vase of this pattern in the Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum is illustrated in Keitokuchin Jiki, pl. 52, bottom left; another of similar shape but painted with a dense lotus scroll was included in the Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, 1986 and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 29.

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