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A Ming-style blue and white garlic-head vase
18th century
Strongly potted with the rounded body raised on a gently flaring foot
and painted in a bright blue in imitation of heaping and piling with
classic scroll on the foot, the body with a continuous leafy meander
issuing various blossoms including lotus, peony and chrysanthemum
between rows of lappets ending at a moulded band around the slender
neck, above the band with another row of lappets beneath another
floral scroll and a row of ruyi-head at the mouth
35cm (13¾in) high
£80,000 - 100,000
HK$940,000 - 1,200,000 CNY750,000 - 940,000
十八世紀 青花明式纏枝花卉紋蒜頭瓶
Provenance: an English private collection
來源:英國私人收藏
The present blue and white garlic-neck vase has been inspired in form
and design by Ming Dynasty vases. Composite foliate scrolls with various
blossoms, as well as linghzi fungus scrolls, decorated Yongle period
vessels and would have set the example for the wide border around the
body and neck of the present vase.
Compare a blue and white double-gourd garlic-head two-handled vase,
Qianlong mark and period, with a lotus scroll around the body and
lingzhi fungus scroll around the garlic mouth, sold at Sotheby’s Hong
Kong, 8 April 2010, lot 1821.
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