YONGZHENG (1723-35)

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A FAMILLE ROSE BLACK-GROUND VASE AND A COVER
YONGZHENG (1723-35)
Of baluster form tapering to an ogee section above the foot, brightly enamelled with fruit-shaped panels enclosing peony and prunus sprays on each side divided by fan-shaped panels of a long-tailed bird perched on a rose spray and a scroll-shaped panel of fruiting vine, all reserved on a black ground with bright pink, blue, and white chrysanthemum heads and densely scrolling green foliage, below a pink trellis-pattern band with floral cartouches at the shoulder and above the foot, the domed cover similarly decorated below the lotus bud finial, cover with added black enamel
18½ in. (47 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A larger vase and cover, but very similarly decorated to the vase in the present lot, is illustrated by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, Famille Verte, Famille Rose, London, 1987, p. 130, fig. 185. Another vase and cover very similarly decorated, but no size mentioned, is illustrated by J. van Goidsenhoven, La Famille Rose, Brussels, 1973, colour plate, p. 25. A smaller vase and cover, also similarly decorated but with cockerels in the two largest panels, is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, illustrated by R. L. Hobson, Chinese Porcelain and Wedgwood Pottery, London, 1928, plate 5, no. 390 and p. 65.

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