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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE PEAR-SHAPED For a 14th century underglaze copper-red example with related decoration in
VASES, YUHUCHUNPING the Palace Museum, which may be the earliest prototype of this design, see
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF Sekai Toji Zenshu, 1981, vol. 13, pl. 78. Another close blue and white example
THE PERIOD (1875-1908) dated to the Yongle period from the Qing Court Collection is illustrated in
The vases are each painted around the sides in vivid blue tones in imitation Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red I, The Complete Collection
of ‘heaping and piling’ with plantains and bamboo growing in a terraced of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 35, no. 33. This
landscape. The shoulders are painted with decorative bands of ruyi and scroll ‘plantain and bamboo’ pattern was revived during the Qianlong period and
below a band of upright leaves at the waisted necks and the splayed bases are can be seen on a vase included in the Special Exhibition of K’ang-hsi, Yung-
decorated with lappet borders above detached lotus-heads. cheng and Ch’ien-lung Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1968, and
11¬ in. (29.5 cm.) high
illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 72. This type of bottle vase continued to be
(2) produced during the reigns of the Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi and
Guangxu Emperors.
£6,000-8,000 $8,500-11,000
€6,900-9,200 清道光 青花明式玉壺春瓶一對 六字楷書款

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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘IMMORTALS’ BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN
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UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-
1795)
The bowl is decorated to the exterior with the Eight
Immortals each holding their respective attributes and
standing on scrolling ruyi-shaped clouds. The interior
is decorated with a roundel enclosing the Three Star
Gods, Fulushou, below a pine tree.
6 in. (15.1 cm.) diam.
£6,000-8,000 $8,500-11,000
€6,900-9,200

PROVENANCE
Christie’s London, 15 May 2007, lot 271.
清乾隆 青花八仙過海圖碗 六字篆書款
來源:倫敦佳士得2007年5月15日拍賣,拍
品271號.

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