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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE HUDSON VALLEY COLLECTION
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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE HU-FORM VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase is well painted in the Ming style with ‘heaped and piled’ efect around the body with a broad
band of foliate scroll bearing eight large blossoms between a band of waves below and a ruyi border at the
edge of the sloping shoulder, which is decorated with a wave band and continues into the neck which is
decorated with two bands of fower scroll, the uppermost band interrupted by the pair of wave-decorated
tubular handles, all below a band of trefoils pendent from a further wave border at the rim.
20º in. (51.5 cm.) high

$60,000-80,000

PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 1 June 1979, lot 130.
An identical blue and white hu-form vase was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter’s
Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2 November 1984 - 6 January 1985, no. 63. See, also, another
identical vase sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31 May 2010, lot 1907, and a further example, also sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2005, lot 1480. Another hu-shaped vase of this design, but potted with an
upright rather than fared mouth rim, is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Book 1,
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1968, pl. 3.
清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮紋貫耳大瓶 六字篆書款

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