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Auction archive: Lot number 269

A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASES, HU

Estimate
£500,000 - £800,000
ca. US$817,196 - US$1,307,513
Price realised:
£499,250
ca. US$815,970
Auction archive: Lot number 269

A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASES, HU

Estimate
£500,000 - £800,000
ca. US$817,196 - US$1,307,513
Price realised:
£499,250
ca. US$815,970
Beschreibung:

A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASES, HU
QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASES, HU QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95) Each robustly potted vessel finely painted around the bulbous lower section with large peony blooms borne on leafy meandering scrolls with smaller blooms and set between a band of pendant ruyi heads at the shoulder and turbulent waves at the base, the broad shoulders luted to the body with a subtle indentation sweeping up to the flaring neck flanked by a pair of tubular lug handles, the wave band further repeated around the shoulders, mouth and handles, with two registers of lotus flowers filling out the decoration around the neck, each containing scrolling foliate vines punctuated by large blooms 20½ in. (51 cm.) high (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 269
Auction:
Datum:
10 May 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
10 May 2011, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASES, HU
QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASES, HU QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95) Each robustly potted vessel finely painted around the bulbous lower section with large peony blooms borne on leafy meandering scrolls with smaller blooms and set between a band of pendant ruyi heads at the shoulder and turbulent waves at the base, the broad shoulders luted to the body with a subtle indentation sweeping up to the flaring neck flanked by a pair of tubular lug handles, the wave band further repeated around the shoulders, mouth and handles, with two registers of lotus flowers filling out the decoration around the neck, each containing scrolling foliate vines punctuated by large blooms 20½ in. (51 cm.) high (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 269
Auction:
Datum:
10 May 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
10 May 2011, London, King Street
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