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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY 女士藏品
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A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASE, HU
Daoguang seal mark and of the period
Painted in vibrant cobalt-blue tone, the baluster body encircled by
two bands, the upper with continuous lotus scroll, the lower with a
composite floral scroll, all between slightly raised double-line borders,
the shoulder set with animal mask and mock-ring handles, below the
waisted flared neck decorated with stiff ruyi-bordered upright plantain
leaves and a narrow wave band around the rim, the lower register with
a further wave band above a band of pendant petal panels encircling
the foot.
24.8cm (9 3/4in) high
£5,000 - 8,000 CNY46,000 - 73,000
HK$55,000 - 88,000
清道光 青花纏枝蓮紋鋪首耳尊
青花「大清道光年製」篆書款
Provenance: an English private collection, and thence by descent
來源： 英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今
Vases of the same shape as the present one are thought to have
first been made at Jingdezhen during the Yongzheng reign. A closely
related vase, dated to the Daoguang period, is illustrated by Geng
Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, p.302, pl.510.
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