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collection, sold at Christie's New York, 13th September 2019, lot 1103. Compare also a much smaller teadust-glazed vase of similar
form sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 2nd November 1998, lot 373.

It is rare to find Qianlong hu of this form and size in other monochrome glaze, although a guan-type example, formerly in the
collection of Colonel Michael Friedsam, is recorded in the Brooklyn Museum, New York, acc. no. 32.1244 and exhibited in the
museum's 2018 exhibition Infinite Blue. A number of large Qianlong blue and white hu, decorated with a flower scroll design but
without the molded bands, are also known, such as a vase from the Tianminlou Collection, included in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C.
Ko Tianminlou Collection, Part I, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 58. This type of large vase can also be found decorated in doucai, such
as one in the Chang Foundation, published in James Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990,
pl. 161.

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