Lot Essay
For two other similar large baluster vases, see G. C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, 1925, pp. 186-187, pl.LVII.
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AN IRON-RED, GILT AND TURQUOISE GLAZED SLENDER BALUSTER VASE AND COVER
CIRCA 1750
Painted with a stag and deer on a fenced terrace with a crane and other long-tailed birds in the branches of a prunus tree above, the shoulder with a dense cell band with shaped cartouches centered by vases of flowers and small buddhistic lions, below a band of archaistic key-fret dragons, the domed cover with further cell patterns and a buddistic lion finial-53½in. (136cm.) high
CIRCA 1750
Painted with a stag and deer on a fenced terrace with a crane and other long-tailed birds in the branches of a prunus tree above, the shoulder with a dense cell band with shaped cartouches centered by vases of flowers and small buddhistic lions, below a band of archaistic key-fret dragons, the domed cover with further cell patterns and a buddistic lion finial-53½in. (136cm.) high
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