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24 avril 2012

A fine and rare large blue and white hexagonal vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795)

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Lot 3239. A fine and rare large blue and white hexagonal vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795); 68 cm., 26 3/4 in. Estimate 6,000,000-9,000,000 HKD (587,147 — 880,721 EUR). Lot sold 8,420,000 HKD(823,963 EUR)Photo Sotheby's

sturdily potted of hexagonal section, the baluster body with broad and angular shoulders, elegantly sloping up to a waisted neck and a flaring mouth, finely decorated in vivid tones of cobalt blue with a composite scroll extending around the sides bearing numerous large and small stylised blooms including lotus and chrysanthemums, on an acanthus leaf scroll, similarly repeated around the facetted neck, divided by bands of pendent ruyi heads, foliate scroll, key-fret and upright lotus blossoms encircling the shoulders, the mouth collared by a further key-fret band suspending pendent lappets, all raised on a prominent splayed foot with a crashing waves border, the countersunk base inscribed with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue. 

PROVENANCE: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 31st October 1995, lot 466.

NOTE: It is rare to find vases of this elegant form decorated with a sumptuous scrolling flower design as seen on this piece. 

This large hexagonal form was introduced during the preceding Yongzheng period (1723-35) while the flower scroll design that is painted in the 'heaping and piling' technique to emulate early fifteenth century blue-and-white wares is firmly rooted in the Ming tradition. Only two other closely related examples appear to be known and were sold separately in these rooms, 5th November 1996, lot 820, and the other, 23rd October 2005, lot 357. 

Vases of this form are more commonly known decorated with pendent sprays of fruit and flowers around the body and neck between lotus sprigs and spiky scrolls decorating the edges, such as the Qianlong example in the Nanjing Museum illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, pl. 212; and another sold in these rooms, 5th October 2011, lot 1920. For the Yongzheng prototype see one from the Grandidier collection and now in the Musée Guimet, Paris, included in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 164.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. Hong Kong | 04 avr. 2012

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