QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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A FINE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The body is heavily potted with bulbous body tapering to a waisted spreading foot and rising to a tall flared neck to form six facetted sides. The hexagonal facets are decorated with large single upright boughs of pomegranate, peach and persimmon alternating with flowering branches of peony, chrysanthemum and lotus, separated by elaborate scrolling motifs at the vertical raised edges. The neck and body are divided at the shoulder by a band of dense wan and ruyi-heads. All are painted in inky tones of cobalt blue.
28 3/8 in. (72 cm.) high

Provenance

Sotheby’s London, 29 January 1974, lot 164

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Lot Essay

The design of the present vase was first produced in the Yongzheng reign, but numerous Qianlong examples are recorded in private collections and auctions. Refer to a Yongzheng-marked example in the collection of Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu - Qing Dynasty, vol.15, Japan, 1983, p. 149, pl. 150.

Compare similar examples with a Qianlong six-character seal mark, including one in Geng Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding (The Connoisseurship of Ming and Qing Porcelain), Hong Kong, 1993, p. 274; another in Julian Thompson, The Alan Chuang Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Hong Kong, 2009, no. 36, p. 118; and one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3220.

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