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PROPERTY FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ART (another view)
ACQUISITIONS FUND

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE JUE STAND

QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The stand is molded with a central ‘mountain’ divided into three deep grooves
to ft the legs of a jue, and is decorated on the sides with rocks emerging from
crashing waves, below a double peach sprig on the top, all surrounded by four
cranes in fight amidst clouds on the interior of the dish-form stand which is
decorated on the exterior between the four feet with ruyi and peach sprays.
6Ω in. (16.5 cm.) diam.

$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Herzman Collection.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, accessioned in 1980.

A set of similar Qianlong-marked stands is in the collection of the Victoria &
Albert Museum and illustrated by R. Kerr in Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of
the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, no. 44. A Qianlong-marked blue
and white jue and stand, similar to the present stand, is illustrated in The
Prime Cultural Relics Collected by the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum -
The Chinaware Volume The First Part, Shenyang, 2008. pp. 072-3, no. 39.

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