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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 815

A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' JAR, GUANGXU MARK AND PERIOD
Estimate: 10,000 - 15,000 USD

A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' JAR
GUANGXU MARK AND PERIOD
清光緒 青花纏枝蓮紋大罐 《大清光緒年製》款

stoutly potted, the ovoid body with broad shoulders and a short tapered neck, painted in vivid blues with large lotus blossoms
amid scrolling vines and arabesques above a row of lappets enclosing floral sprays, the shoulder encircled by a band of the 'Eight
Buddhist Emblems' among clouds and flames, below an archaistic band and a collar of ruyi, the base inscribed in underglaze blue
with a six-character mark

Height 16½ in., 42 cm

Catalogue Note
Compare a jar and cover of similar form and design to the present in the collection of the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated
together with its design on paper, in Guanyang ciqi: Gugong bowuyuancang Qingdai zhici guanyang yu yuyao ciqi [Imperially
designed porcelains: Qing imperial porcelain and their designs in the collection of the Palace Museum], Beijing, pl. 106. Another
example is in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in H.A. van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and
20th centuries, Lochem, 1977, pl. 66.

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