IMPORTANT: THIS LOT IS SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS. TO BID ON TH - Lot 28

IMPORTANT: THIS LOT IS SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS. TO BID ON THIS LOT, A DEPOSIT OF 20,000 EUROS IS REQUIRED, PLEASE CONTACT THE AUCTIONEER. CHINA, Qianlong period (1736-1795). Meiping porcelain vase decorated in blue underglaze with peaches, pomegranates and lychees, forming the three abundances, on leafy branches. The foot is decorated with a frieze of banana leaves, the shoulder with a frieze of lotus petals and the neck with four stylized flowers. On the reverse, the six-character blue underglaze Qianlong zhuanshu mark. Qianlong period, 18th century (1736-1795). H_32.8 cm L_23.5 cm, a hair in the decoration Provenance: Colin POURRAT collection (1821-1889), then by descent. Bourbonnais family. Colin Pourrat, Brigadier General in 1878, commanded the Polytechnic School until 1880. This vase model is inspired by the blue-white porcelain vases of the early Ming period. This model can be decorated with three, six and up to ten different fruits and flowers. Qianlong-period craftsmen strove to imitate the "heaping and piling" typical of Yongle and Xuande blue-whites, adding dotted brushwork in the darker parts of the motifs. This effect is clearly visible on our vase. Reference: Yongle-period vase with similar decoration in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of The Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), 2000, N° 30, p. 32; another Yongle-period vase preserved and illustrated in National Palace Museum, Taipei, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II (part 1), Hong Kong, 1963, pl. 1; another Qianlong-period vase reproduced in National Palace Museum and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of The Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), 2000, N° 117, p. 131.