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108 SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK 20 MARCH 2018 MING: LUMINOUS DAWN OF EMPIRE

!!" PROPERTY FROM A PENNSYLVANIA
PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE
‘LOTUS BUD’ VASE
MING DYNASTY, CHENGHUA PERIOD

the well potted pear-shaped body rising to a lotus bud-shaped mouth
with raised overlapping layers of petals, the body freely painted in
tones of soft cobalt-blue with lotus blooms on meandering leafy stems
interspersed with occasional ears of millet, between bands of upright
and pendent trefoils, the neck decorated with lotus # orets and # anked
by a pair of ! nely pierced and molded scrolling lotus leaf handles, the
splayed foot encircled with # orets, covered overall in a thick unctuous
glaze
Height 10½ in., 26.6 cm

PROVENANCE
Acquired in New Jersey, circa 1979.
O% ered at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 24th-25th November 1981, lot 71.
LITERATURE
Geng Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding [Appraisal of Ming and Qing
porcelain], Hong Kong, 1993, col. pl. 33, and in a line drawing, p. 89,
! g. 151 (3).
׼ϓʷ ڡڀᚂ،ڀᇳᖙɹଧ

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ࠫ89dྡ151 3

$ 1,000,000-1,500,000