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Property from an English private collection
英國私人收藏藏品

58                                                                    With its archaistic form harking back to ancient Chinese bronzes,
A Ming-style blue and white vase, hu                                  the present lot illustrates the consistent interest in antiquity
18th/19th century                                                     prevalent during the Qing Dynasty. Compare a related blue and
The flattened archaistic hu-shaped vase finely painted on each        white hu vase, Yongzheng seal mark and of the period, illustrated
side with a central fully blossoming lotus on a leafy meander         in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum:
between stiff lappets and a band of ruyi head, above further floral   Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), Hong Kong,
scrolls at the spreading foot, the neck also with floral scrolls and  2000, no.100.
two handles each painted with rounded waves beneath a band of
pendent foliate motifs and beads beneath a further band of leiwen
at the rim.
35cm (13¾in) high
£15,000 - 20,000
HK$190,000 - 250,000	CNY150,000 - 200,000

十八/十九世紀 仿明青花纏枝蓮紋貫耳方壺
Provenance: a former Governor of Hong Kong in the late 19th
century, and thence by descent

來源:十九世紀晚期前香港總督藏品,並由家族繼承下去

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