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A RARE AND MAGNIFICENT BLUE AND
WHITE EWER
YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD

inspired by a metalwork prototype, elegantly potted with a
broad cylindrical body molded with two ribbed llets between
two registers of molded chrysanthemum petals, rising to a
rounded shoulder and waisted neck with a bulbous mid-section
and aring gently to a broad spout, nely painted in an early
Ming style with simulated ‘heaping and piling’ with detached
foliate panels and sprays encircling the body, the neck with
bands of varying stylized orets, the rim with oral tassels
suspending from ruyi heads, the base with a six-character seal
mark in underglaze blue
Height 10 in., 25.5cm
PROVENANCE
Nagel Stuttgart, 12th November 2004, lot 1570.
European Private Collection (by repute).
Nagel Stuttgart, 5th November 2010, lot 1239.
$ 500,000-700,000

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