A FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND VASE, GU

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A FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND VASE, GU
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER IRON-RED SEALMARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The flaring trumpet neck and domed base of the gu are finely enamelled with the Eight Precious Objects, bajixiang, adorned with fluttering ribbons and entwined with the curly vines of a lotus meander, divided by a bulbous mid-section below the iron-red reign mark and bands of ruyi-heads, upright lappets, key-pattern and floral scrolls, all against a bright lemon-yellow ground, the interior and base with turquoise enamel
14 5/8 in. (37.2 cm.) high, box

拍品专文

The present beaker vase is of an unusually large size; a similarly tall vase was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 May 1994, lot 232. Compare also with a smaller vase of this shape and design, included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain, Nanjing Museum and the Art Gallery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 95.

Vases of this type are usually found as part of an altar garniture, with matching incense burner and candlestick holders, all invariably decorated with bajixiang and lotus scrolls. Cf. a Qianlong-marked ruby-ground five-piece garniture set in the National Palace Museum, included in A Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, Taiwan, 1994, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 105.