Lot 1904
1904
A FINE AND RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE OVOID VASE
THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A FINE AND RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE OVOID VASE

Details
A FINE AND RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE OVOID VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The ovoid body raised on a spreading foot encircled by a band of petal lappets, and moulded with double bow-string borders enclosing bands of composite foliate and lotus scroll interrupted by a pair of moulded dragon mask and ring handles at the shoulder, all above a band of wind-tossed waves on the lower body repeated in a border at the mouth rim above a band of upright leaf tips on the waisted neck
9 5/8 in. (25 cm.) high
Provenance
An English private collection, London
Robert Chang, Hong Kong, early 1970's
Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2008, lot 2566

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Lot Essay

Cf. a Qianlong vase of this pattern in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum, Blue-and-White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, 1968, pl. 2; and an example sold at Christie's New York, 17 September 2008, lot 458.

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