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Fig. 1  Fragment of a blue and white   Fig. 2  A blue and white ‘lotus bud’
                                                                          ‘lotus bud’ vase, Ming dynasty,   vase, Jiajing mark and period,
                                                                          Chenghua period, excavated at   Huaihaitang Collection
                                                                          Jingdezhen in 2014 © Jingdezhen
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              nos 44 and 49; and the lotus blooms on the neck may be derived from
              detached lotus sprays, as they appear, for example, interspersed between   Νᗳଧν͉ۜ٫dͦۃස̤ٝϞɓԷdਯ׵
              Tibetan characters, on a Xuande jar in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Geng,   ࠰ಥᘽబˢ2007ϋ10˜9˚dᇜ໮1557f̤
              2002, op.cit., vol. 2, pl. 109.                                        ɓଧԷd७ུ޴ڐdϋ˾Ꮠһૉdɪש׵࠰
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              Only one companion bottle appears to be recorded, a bottle sold in our Hong   ɓಃd੿㜺͵ደႡϤᗳଧjˢ༰ɓԷdࣣྗ
              Kong rooms 9th October 2007, lot 1557. Another bottle of this design, but   ཨಛdಀ࢝׵ዚะ׼༸jᕿऎੀᔛ׼˾ʕ
              somewhat di# erently executed and probably slightly later in date, was o# ered   ૉಂ֜㜺ନኜ‘d࠰ಥʕ˖ɽኪ˖ي᎜d࠰
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              in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th October 2006, lot 1162; and in the Jiajing reign
              (1522-1566) this design was again copied by the imperial kilns: a similar   Ї૶ɓಃdའ͍ެ܎ɽɢూጳ౻ᅃᕄ੿㜺d
              bottle of Jiajing mark and period was included in the exhibition Enlightening   ˸҂׼ޜନމᅼ͉dא˺୚ͷࣖdאપ௓௴
              Elegance. Imperial Porcelain of the Mid to Late Ming. The Huaihaitang   อf̙ਞϽɓڡڀٜ᎕ଧԷdᇳɹၾ͉ۜ޴
              Collection, the Art Museum, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese   ڐd቗࠯Ѐۆν৷̚ڡზడdԈ࠰ಥᘽబ
              University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2012-13, cat. no. 36 (! g. 2).     ˢɚɤ඄ϋ‘d࠰ಥd1993ϋdᇜ໮171f

              When the Yongzheng Emperor (r. 1723-1735) tried to revive the production
              of the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, he selected Song (960-1279) and Ming
              (1368-1644) porcelains either to be closely copied or to serve as inspiration
              for new, contemporary designs. In his reign a very tall blue-and-white bottle
              was produced, which looks like a compromise between the present vase and
              an archaic bronze hu, the former providing the lotus-bud mouth, the latter the
              animal-mask handles; see Sotheby’s Hong Kong – Twenty Years, 1973-1993,
              Hong Kong, 1993, no. 171.
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