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A blue and white faceted vase, Yuan dynasty | 元青花花卉紋八棱玉壺春瓶

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December 8, 05:58 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 GBP

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A blue and white faceted vase, Yuan dynasty

元青花花卉紋八棱玉壺春瓶

of octagonal section, the pear-shaped body rising from a conforming foot to a columnar neck and an everted trumpet mouth, each facet painted with an upright petal lappet below a tall rectangular panel enclosing a blossoming floral sprig framed by foliate brackets at the corners, four pendent petal lappets encircling the constricted neck, upright plantain leaves at the rim, bands of classic scroll dividing each register of decoration

Height 25.3 cm, 9.9 in.

J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 20th January 2003.

藍理捷，紐約，2003年1月20日

Compare a very similar octagonal blue and white vase illustrated in Feng Xianming, 'Yuan yiqian wo guo ciqi xiaoxing yazhou de kaocha [Research on the Export Trade in Chinese Porcelain in Asia during the Yuan dynasty or earlier]', vol. 6, Wenwu/Cultural Relics, Beijing, 1981, p. 72, fig. 10; another vase, illustrated in Wang Qingzheng, Qinghua youlihong/Underglaze Blue & Red, Shanghai, 1987, pl. 8; and a third example, published in Margaret Medley, Yuan Porcelain & Stoneware, London, 1974, pl. 38B. See also an ewer and cover with similar decoration, excavated from Baoding, Hebei province in 1964, included in the exhibition Splendors in Smalt. Art of Yuan Blue-and-white Porcelain, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 2012, cat. no. 59.

A blue and white faceted vase, Yuan dynasty | 元 青花花卉紋八棱玉壺春瓶

A blue and white faceted vase, Yuan dynasty | 元青花花卉紋八棱玉壺春瓶