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A MAGNIFICENT BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE An example of this pattern in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated
Qianlong six-character seal mark and of the period in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, Vol. 15, part 2, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 2
Finely painted in a deep cobalt blue with rich 'heaping and piling' in and another in the Nanjing Museum is illustrated in Treasures of the
imitation of the celebrated 15th century Ming style, with a large band Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty,
of composite floral scrolls running around the main part of the body on Shanghai, 2003, pl. 233. A very similar pair of Qianlong marked blue
leafy stems that rise and fall, set above large lotus petal lappets and a and white vases from the collection of Colonel Michael Friedsam,
band of classic scroll at the spreading foot, and all below two rows of now in the Brooklyn Museum is illustrated on the museum's website,
molded bow-string bands dividing pendant ruyi lappets and a further accession number 32.1032.1-.2; and another example is illustrated in
thin band of composite floral scrolls at the shoulder, the tall waisted Qingdai Ciqi Shangjian, Hong Kong, 1994, pl. 165.
neck with a thin band of key-pattern below upright plantain leaf lappets
that rise up the neck to an everted rim with a band of breaking waves The Topkapi Museum in Istanbul also a number of such vases in
above further pendant ruyi lappets. their collection, see Regina Krahl, John Ayers and Nurdan Erbahar,
14 1/2in (36.8cm) high Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, A Complete
Catalogue, III, Qing Dynasty Porcelains, London, 1996, p. , pl. 2564.
$120,000 - 180,000
See also Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2019, lot 527; Sotheby's
清乾隆 《大清乾隆年製》青花篆書款 青花纏枝蓮紋長頸瓶 New York and Christie's 31 May 2010, lot 1999.
Provenance:
From a Private U.S. Collection
來源：
美國私人藏

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