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A RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795)
清雍正/乾隆 青花纏枝花卉紋葫蘆瓶
The vase is well potted with two pronounced bulbs, painted in Ming style with
a dense composite foral scroll, divided by a waisted neck encircled by bands
of key-fret, pendent trefoils and angular lappets. The narrow mouth rim is
decorated with classic scrolls and petals. The underside is inscribed with an
apocryphal Xuande six-character mark.
9 º in. (23.5 cm.) high
£20,000–40,000 $29,000–56,000
€23,000–46,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's London, 13 November 2002, lot 129
From a private Asian collection
Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2006, lot 1541
來源:
倫敦蘇富比2002年11月13日拍賣, 拍品129號
亞洲私人舊藏
香港佳士得2006年11月28日拍賣, 拍品1541號

For the Ming prototype of this vase, see the example with very similar
proportions and with a Xuande mark from the National Palace Museum,
Taiwan, illustrated in the Catalogue to the Special Exhibition of Ming Xuande
Ceramic Wares, Taiwan, no. 4; an unmarked vase from the Edward T. Chow
Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 January 1981, lot 414; and
another illustrated by Takushin Kushi, Shina Minsho Tojizukan, pl. 58.

54 Other fees apply in addition to the hammer price – see Section D of our Conditions of Sale at the back of this Catalogue