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A Hué blue-white porcelain bottle-shaped spirit...

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A Hué blue-white porcelain bottle-shaped spirit vase decorated with evanescent clouds known as the "Tân Vân" motif, the neck encircled by a copper alloy. The shoulder is decorated with friezes of stylized ruyi. Appreciation mark Nấm linh chi with immortality mushroom in blue underglaze on base. China for Vietnam, late 18th century, Lê Trinh-Chua Nguyen period. Height: 28.5 cm. (Wear, accident under the frame). For a similar piece, see Michel Beurdeley and Guy Raindre, La porcelaine des Qing, Paris, Office du Livre, Éditions Vilo, ill. 315, p. 227 and Le Viêt Nam des Royaumes, Paris, Cercle d'Art, 1995, p. 41.