Asian Art - 7th November 2007

Lot 632

A Chinese blue and white Ming-style vase

Estimate £8,000 - £10,000

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Description

A Chinese blue and white Ming-style vase, painted with a frieze of archaic foliage between upright and pendant stiff leaves, the neck applied with a pair of cylindrical handles joined by a key fret band, Qianlong six character seal mark, perhaps of the period, 19.5cm. Cf. A similar vase in the National Palace Museum is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, pl. 7.