A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, HU QING DYNASTY, 18TH – EARLY 19TH CENTURY |

sturdily potted with a baluster body rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck, flanked by a pair of mask handles suspending mock rings, the body decorated with floral scrolls, below upright plantain leaves encircling the neck

The Hu vase is of overall very good condition except 2 minute glaze flake/bruise, one on the tip of nose of one animal mask, another on lower body. There are very fine firing speckles over the glaze as expected on a large vase like this.
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