A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE HU-FORM VASE, QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE HU-FORM VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase is well painted in the Ming style with 'heaped and piled' effect around the body with a broad band of foliate scroll bearing eight large blossoms between a band of waves below and a ruyi border at the edge of the sloping shoulder, which is decorated with a wave band and continues into the neck which is decorated with two bands of flower scroll, the uppermost band interrupted by the pair of wave-decorated tubular handles, all below a band of trefoils pendent from a further wave border at the rim.
20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm.) high

Provenance
Christie's New York, 1 June 1979, lot 130.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE HUDSON VALLEY COLLECTION