DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Details
A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD VASE, SUANTOUPING
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
The body painted with six leafy sprigs of peach, pomegranate and persimmon, the sanduo, all issuing from lingzhi fungus above a band of lotus lappets and waves around the spreading foot, the shoulder with a moulded raised rib dividing lotus panels enclosing flame motifs above and key-pattern and pendent ruyi-heads below, the bulbous head with a key-fret band above a continuous scroll of camelia
11in. (28.2cm.) high
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
The body painted with six leafy sprigs of peach, pomegranate and persimmon, the sanduo, all issuing from lingzhi fungus above a band of lotus lappets and waves around the spreading foot, the shoulder with a moulded raised rib dividing lotus panels enclosing flame motifs above and key-pattern and pendent ruyi-heads below, the bulbous head with a key-fret band above a continuous scroll of camelia
11in. (28.2cm.) high
Provenance
E.T.Chow, sold in Hong Kong, 19th May 1981, lot 549
Literature
A similar Qianlong-marked vase in the National Palace Museum is illustrated in Monochrome of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Catalogue, no. 74. Another Qianlong example was included in the Exhibition of Chinee Porcelain. The S.C. Ko, Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987,Catalogue, no. 61
Cf. the Daoguang example from the Edward T. Chow Collection sold in Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 549 and the pair sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 17th January 1989, lot 651.
Cf. the Daoguang example from the Edward T. Chow Collection sold in Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 549 and the pair sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 17th January 1989, lot 651.
Exhibited
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Kwan Collection, 1983,Catalogue, no. 1
National Museum of History, Taipei, Imperial Porcelain of late Ch'ing, From the Kwan Collection, 1985, Catalogue, no. 1
National Museum of History, Taipei, Imperial Porcelain of late Ch'ing, From the Kwan Collection, 1985, Catalogue, no. 1