A fine and large blue and white archaistic vase

Property from a Bay Area Private Collection
A fine and large blue and white archaistic vase
18th/19th century
Thickly potted with a vertical rim, a pair of scrolling tendril handles applied to the waisted neck and an ovoid body raised on a spreading foot, the extensive painted decoration highlighted in a dotted technique meant to replicate the patterns and the 'heaped and piled' appearance of the underglaze blue pigments on early Ming porcelains; the glaze covering all surfaces except the rounded foot pad encircling the recessed base.
27 3/4in (70.5cm) high