A VERY RARE MING-STYLE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED YELLOW-ENAM...

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25.09.2020 14:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 1615 | A VERY RARE MING-STYLE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED YELLOW-ENAM...
A VERY RARE MING-STYLE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED YELLOW-ENAMELED VASE, MEIPING

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The superbly potted body is finely decorated in fifteenth-century style simulating 'heaping and piling' in rich tones of underglaze blue, with alternating registers of fruiting peach, pomegranate and lychees and flowering leafy branches of peony, prunus and chrysanthemum, the end of each branch issuing from a sprig of lingzhi fungus. All are above a band of upright leaf tips and below a band of petal lappets radiating from the base of the waisted neck decorated with four small foliate sprays, all within blue line borders, and reserved on a bright yellow enamel ground.

12 7/8 in. (32.8 cm.) high

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