A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' JAR, GUANGXU MARK AND PERIOD
Auction Closed
September 23, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' JAR
GUANGXU MARK AND PERIOD
清光緒 青花纏枝蓮紋大罐 《大清光緒年製》款
stoutly potted, the ovoid body with broad shoulders and a short tapered neck, painted in vivid blues with large lotus blossoms amid scrolling vines and arabesques above a row of lappets enclosing floral sprays, the shoulder encircled by a band of the 'Eight Buddhist Emblems' among clouds and flames, below an archaistic band and a collar of ruyi, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character mark
Height 16½ in., 42 cm
Compare a jar and cover of similar form and design to the present in the collection of the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated together with its design on paper, in Guanyang ciqi: Gugong bowuyuancang Qingdai zhici guanyang yu yuyao ciqi [Imperially designed porcelains: Qing imperial porcelain and their designs in the collection of the Palace Museum], Beijing, pl. 106. Another example is in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in H.A. van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th centuries, Lochem, 1977, pl. 66.