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AN UNUSUAL SMALL BLUE AND WHITE VASE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The bulbous body is decorated in the ffteenth-century style with fruiting and fowering branches arranged d
in two registers including peach, pomegranate, lychee, peach, rose and camellia, between a band of key
fret interrupted by two oblong slits on the foot and bands of ruyi heads and classic scroll on the shoulder.
The neck is decorated with a band of upright leaf tips below trefoil and key-fret bands separated by a bow-
string band, and the fared mouth is encircled by a band of overlapping petals.
8æ in. (22.3 cm.) high, cloth box

$8,000-12,000
清乾隆 青花折枝花卉紋穿帶瓶

(another view)

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