A Ming-style blue and white pear-shaped vase, yuhuchunping. Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795)
Lot 459. A Ming-style blue and white pear-shaped vase, yuhuchunping. Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795); 11 3/16 in. (28.4 cm.) high Estimate : $30,000 - $40,000. Price Realized $72,100. © Christie's Imges Ltd 2008
The well-potted body painted in inky tones of blue with a continuous frieze of bamboo, plantain trees and ornamental rockwork in a fenced garden, set between decorative borders above and below, and with detached demi-lotus on the spreading foot.
Provenance : Sotheby's, New York, 20 March 1976, lot 174.
Note : A similarly decorated Qianlong-marked example is illustrated in Porcelain of The National Palace Museum: Blue-and-White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, Taipei, 1968, pl. 12. See, also, two other Qianlong-marked examples of this type, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 27 November 2007, lot 1690, and 29 May 2007, lot 1468.
Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. 17 September 2008. New York, Rockefeller Plaza.