A FINE AND RARE YELLOW-GROUND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED VASE

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A FINE AND RARE YELLOW-GROUND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED VASE
EARLY QIANLONG

Painted on the globular body with formal scrolling lotus, each flower-spray divided by kui dragons, all between bands of ruyi- heads, the slightly flaring foot with formal scroll, the tall flaring neck with four pairs of kui dragons confronted around stylised lotus-sprays above a band of key-pattern at the shoulder and below a further band of ruyi-heads at the widely flaring mouth
10 1/2 in. (26.6 cm.) high
Provenance
The Jarras Collection, Part II: Fine Ming and Qing Porcelain, sold in these Rooms, 8 October 1990, lot 361.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 20 November 1984, lot 429.

It is rare to find vases of this shape copying the rich fifteenth century combination of underglaze-blue and yellow enamel. A Yongzheng-marked version with a compressed globular body rising to a straight neck was sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 643. Cf. also a meiping vase sold in our Rooms, The Imperial Sale, 28 April 1996, lot 56.

Although the present example is unmarked, the quality of the enamelling and underglaze blue painting corresponds to the best examples of the Imperial wares of the period.

(US$60,000-77,000)

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