A VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE LANTERN-SHAPED VASE

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A VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE LANTERN-SHAPED VASE
IRON-RED JIAQING SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely and delicately enamelled around the oviform body with a beauty performing a dance to music played by ten female musicians in the shade of a wutong tree, all within a fenced garden, the reverse with four further ladies variously carrying books and scrolls, a qin wrapped in cloth and cups of tea on a tray, the details of the instruments and jewellery picked out in gilt, the base and waisted neck enriched with stylised Indian lotus scrolls reserved on a rich ruby-red ground, the underside and interior turquoise-glazed
12 5/8 in. (32 cm.) high, box

拍品专文

Previously sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 672; as was the pair, 29 September 1992, lot 601. A slightly smaller vase of this shape and decoration also sold in these Rooms, 1 May 1995, lot 672.

The ladies of the Han Palace were a popular theme on Qing decorative arts. One other Jiaqing-marked vase decorated with this subject, from the collection of Sir Frederick Bruce sold in our London Rooms, 16 December 1981, lot 86.

(US$90,000-120,000)