

PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Vases of this design are rare and no other closely related example appears to have been published. Compare Qianlong mark and period meiping of similar proportions but painted with a variety of floral scrolls, such as one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 17th November 1975, lot 57, and again at Christie’s New York, 30th March 2005, lot 362; a larger example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures in the Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 207; another in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum’s exhibition Emperor Ch’ien-lung’s Grand Cultural Enterprise, Taipei, 2001, cat. no. V-3; and a fourth vase sold in these rooms, 16th June 1999, lot 801, and again at Christie’s London, 10th May 2011, lot 276.