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A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE Elegantly decorated with early Ming-inspired motifs, the
VASE craftsman of this vase has also imitated the mottled ‘heaping
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD and piling’ effect of the celebrated 15th century blue and
white wares through a deliberate application of darker and
the globular body rising from a short spreading foot to a tall denser spots of cobalt on the design. A related example in
elegant waisted neck, finely painted in rich ‘heaped and piled’ the Nanjing Museum is illustrated in Treasures of the Royalty:
cobalt-blue tones with a composite flower scroll band, all The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty,
between lotus lappet and ‘classic’ scroll bands at the base Shanghai, 2003, pl. 233; one in the Shanghai Museum is
and a ruyi band at the shoulder, the neck with stiff leaf and published in Zhongguo taoci quanji [Complete series on
keyfret bands below a wave band at the rim, the base with a Chinese ceramics], vol. 15, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 2; and four
six-character seal mark in underglaze blue such vases are illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics
Height 14⅝ in., 37 cm in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. III, London, 1996, pl. 2564,
one with an elaborate 19th century Ottoman gilt-metal cover.
PROVENANCE Similar vases were also sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 13th
Hugh Moss Ltd., London, 8th October 1975. March 1973, lot 273, and 29th April 1997, lot 632; and in
Collection of Chia-Shi Lin (1930-2020), and thence by these rooms, 15th September 1999, lot 94.
descent.
$ 60,000-80,000

清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮紋賞瓶
《大清乾隆年製》款

來源
Hugh Moss Ltd.，倫敦，1975年10月8日
林教授 (1930-2020) 緣木得魚齋珍藏，此後家族傳承

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