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A BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL JARDINIÈRE STAND A LARGE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE ‘BAJIXIANG’ BOWL
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The stand of hexagonal form is raised on six ruyi-head feet and decorated on
each side of the shallow, compressed body with a bat suspending a chime The bowl is fnely painted in the ffteenth century style with simulated ‘heaping
fanked by fower scrolls, below stylized leaf lappets on the underside of the and piling’ around the exterior with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang,
fared rim that is decorated on top with a diaper band within a raised outer tied with futtering ribbons and supported on lotus blooms borne on scrolling,
edge. Six spur marks are on the base. leafy stems, all above a band of upright lappets. The foot and inner mouth rim
7 in. (17.9 cm.) wide are encircled by wave bands, and the interior medallion is decorated with a
fower head that centers a stylized double-vajra and futtering ribbons.
$12,000-18,000 10¿ in. (25.8 cm.) diam.
$25,000-35,000
A blue and white hexagonal planter of similar but slightly taller form, dated
to the Qianlong period, in the Shanghai Museum, is illustrated in Selected 清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮托八吉祥紋盌 六字篆書款
Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Hu, Shanghai, 1989, p. 95,
pl. 60. Famille rose jardinière stands of the same shape as the present stand,
and of Qianlong date, are illustrated with their jardinières in The Oficial Kiln
Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, pp. 247 and 255.
清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮紋海棠式盆座

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