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

!"% AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND IMPORTANT
BLUE AND WHITE ‘LOTUS’ RITUAL WATER
FLASK
MING DYNASTY, YONGLE PERIOD

the elegant baluster body rising from a tall stepped spreading foot to a
slender cylindrical neck divided by an angled disc-shaped collar at the
mid-section, painted in rich tones of underglaze blue with characteristic
‘heaping and piling’, a continuous lotus scroll at the body framed by
borders of lappets, the neck with scattered ! ower heads, further lappet
bands at the collar and the rim encircled by a ! oral band, the concave
underside glazed white

Height 12⅜ in., 31.4 cm
׼͑ᆀ ڡڀᚂ،ᇳ७͚ᚣଧ

$ 60,000-80,000