A FINE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL VASE

A FINE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL VASE QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY The body is heavily potted with bulbous body tapering to a waisted spreading foot and rising to a tall flared neck to form six facetted sides. The hexagonal facets are decorated with large single upright boughs of pomegranate, peach and persimmon alternating with flowering branches of peony, chrysanthemum and lotus, separated by elaborate scrolling motifs at the vertical raised edges. The neck and body are divided at the shoulder by a band of dense wan and ruyi -heads. All are painted in inky tones of cobalt blue. 28 3/8 in. (72 cm.) high Provenance Sotheby’s London, 29 January 1974, lot 164