MING BLUE AND WHITE GOURD BOTTLE

PROVENANCE: From Bluffton, SC Private Collector.

Dimensions: Heigth: 54.7 cm, width: 26.5 cm

Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Gourd Bottle Vase On Carved Hardwood Stand. Potted in a shape of double gourd resemblance, with two bulbous bellies conjoined together, bulbous lower section finishing into a slender bottleneck at the top, suspending a cylindrical neck, raised on short rectangle foot base and slighty concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against blue fine color, depicted of flying cranes through vapors over thrashing lishui wavy waves flowers bloom and auspicious pattern. There is not any overlap of the outlines, its well carved, clear, subtle, and distinct.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.
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