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               PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE   The unusual geometric design is based on Middle Eastern                    PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE   清道光   青花纏枝花卉紋鋪首耳壺
               COLLECTION                                motifs which first appeared on Chinese blue and white                          COLLECTION
               A PAIR OF MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE       porcelains of the Yongle period (1403-1424), such as a jars of                 A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE VASE (HU)     《大清道光年製》款
               JARLETS                                   cylindrical albarello shape and moonflasks. See a Yongle jar                   SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG
               MARKS AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG             and cover from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Geng                  the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue  來源
                                                         Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan cang Ming chu qinghua ci
               the base of each with a six-character mark in underglaze blue   [Early Ming blue-and-white porcelain in the Palace Museum],   Height 10 in., 25.3 cm               紐約蘇富比1997年9月23日,編號281
               within a double circle (2)                Beijing, 2002, vol. 1, pl. 22, and for two different Qing copies,
               Height 4 in., 10.1 cm                     ibid., vol. 2, pl. 193: a small jar of Yongzheng mark and period;              PROVENANCE
                                                         and pl. 208: a closely copied unmarked jar and cover from                      Sotheby’s New York, 23rd September 1997, lot 281.
               PROVENANCE                                the Qing Court Collection, attributed to the Qianlong reign.
                                                                                                                                        This vase belongs to a distinct group of blue and white wares
               Sotheby’s New York, 23rd September 1997, lot 286.                                                                        from the Qing dynasty with motifs adapted from early 15th
                                                                                                                                        century porcelain on forms inspired by bronze prototypes.
               $ 40,000-60,000                                                                                                          Vases of this form were first produced at the imperial kilns
                                                                                                                                        in Jingdezhen during the Yongzheng period (1723-1735) and
                                                                                                                                        were produced in large quantities during the Qianlong period
               清雍正   青花錦地開光花卉紋小罐一對                                                                                                      (1735-1795). See, for example, a Qianlong mark and period
               《大清雍正年製》款                                                                                                                vase in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in
                                                                                                                                        Porcelain of the National Palace Museum. Blue and White
                                                                                                                                        Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 2.
               來源
               紐約蘇富比1997年9月23日,編號286                                                                                                    Vases of this form from the Daoguang period are rarer,
                                                                                                                                        however see one illustrated in Geng Baochang, Ming Qing
                                                                                                                                        ciqi jianding [Connoisseurship of Ming and Qing Porcelains],
                                                                                                                                        Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 510; and another sold in these rooms,
                                                                                                                                        29th May 1991, lot 273.
                                                                                                                                        $ 60,000-80,000












































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