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A large blue-glazed baluster vase, meiping
Qianlong
The elegant vase covered on the exterior with a deep blue glaze,
stopping neatly at the foot and paling slightly at the mouth, the interior
glazed white and the base unglazed, wood stand.
42.5cm high (16 1/2in) (2).

£10,000 - 15,000 CNY99,000 - 150,000
HK$130,000 - 190,000

清乾隆 霽藍釉梅瓶

Provenance 來源: Hugh J.Grant and Lucie Mackey Grant Collection
Roy Davids Collection, no.91

Hugh J.Grant (1904-1981) was the son of the Hon. Hugh J.Grant
(1858-1910), who at the age of 31 was the youngest elected Mayor
of New York in the city’s history. The Hon. Hugh J.Grant, probably
together with his wife Julia Murphy Grant, appears to have been a
collector of Chinese porcelain.

Vases such as the present lot were favoured in both the Ming and
Qing dynasties: for a Jiajing period example from the Qing Court
Collection, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, Shanghai, 1999, no.68. Compare
also a similar but smaller, Yongzheng-mark and period meiping vase
illustrated in Ethereal Elegance: Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing,
The Huaihaitang Collection, Hong Kong, 2007, pp.108-9, pl.13.

A similar but slightly smaller (38cm high) blue-glazed meiping,
Qianlong, from the E.T.Hall Collection, was sold at Christie’s London, 5
November 2013, lot 432.

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