The Property of a Gentleman 紳士藏品
Lot 111
A Ming-style blue and white bottle vase Qianlong seal mark and of the period
7 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £16,312.50 inc. premium
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A Ming-style blue and white bottle vase
Qianlong seal mark and of the period
The globular body rising from a short spreading foot to a tall elegant waisted neck, finely painted in rich 'heaped and piled' cobalt-blue tones with a composite flower scroll band, all between lotus lappet and 'classic' scroll bands at the base and a ruyi-band at the shoulder, the neck with stiff plantain leaf and key-fret bands. 32cm (12 1/2in) high.
The globular body rising from a short spreading foot to a tall elegant waisted neck, finely painted in rich 'heaped and piled' cobalt-blue tones with a composite flower scroll band, all between lotus lappet and 'classic' scroll bands at the base and a ruyi-band at the shoulder, the neck with stiff plantain leaf and key-fret bands. 32cm (12 1/2in) high.
Footnotes
清乾隆 青花纏枝花卉紋賞瓶
青花「大清乾隆年製」篆書款
Provenance: a European private collection
來源：歐洲私人收藏
A closely-related example in the Nanjing Museum, is illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.233; one in the Shanghai Museum is published in Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol.15, Shanghai, 2000, pl.2; four vases are illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol.III, London, 1986, pl.2564.
Compare with a very similar blue and white vase, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2019, lot 527.
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