A FINE MAGNIFICENT BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLORAL SCROLL’ VASE, HU QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) The robustly potted vessel is 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 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. 20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm.) high Provenance Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 27 April 1993, lot 174 Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 27 April 2003, lot 221 Property from an Asian collection Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October 2006, lot 1074
A FINE MAGNIFICENT BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLORAL SCROLL’ VASE, HU QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) The robustly potted vessel is 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 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. 20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm.) high Provenance Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 27 April 1993, lot 174 Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 27 April 2003, lot 221 Property from an Asian collection Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October 2006, lot 1074
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