YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795)

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A RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795)
The vase is well potted with two pronounced bulbs, painted in Ming style with a dense composite floral scroll, divided by a waisted neck encircled by bands of key-fret, pendent trefoils and angular lappets. The narrow mouth rim is decorated with classic scrolls and petals. The underside is inscribed with an apocryphal Xuande six-character mark.
9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Sotheby's London, 13 November 2002, lot 129
From a private Asian collection
Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2006, lot 1541

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Lot Essay

For the Ming prototype of this vase, see the example with very similar proportions and with a Xuande mark from the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in the Catalogue to the Special Exhibition of Ming Xuande Ceramic Wares, Taiwan, no. 4; an unmarked vase from the Edward T. Chow Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 January 1981, lot 414; and another illustrated by Takushin Kushi, Shina Minsho Tojizukan, pl. 58.

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