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PROPERTY FROM THE CHIA-CHU AND SIAO-MEI CHANG COLLECTION
A LARGE ARCHAISTIC GILT AND ROBIN'S EGG-DECORATED MOLDED HU-FORM VASE
LATE QING DYNASTY
Details
A LARGE ARCHAISTIC GILT AND ROBIN'S EGG-DECORATED MOLDED HU-FORM VASE
LATE QING DYNASTY
The vase is molded and carved with various bands of archaistic decoration including two registers of angular dragon scroll reserved on a leiwen ground on the body, and bands of triangular blades on the lower body and neck which are reserved on a ground of robin's egg blue enamel and gold in imitation of bronze encrustation, which is repeated on the interior of the neck and on the base around an apocryphal Qianlong gilt and molded seal mark. A pair of large mask and ring handles is applied to the shoulder.
20½ in. (52 cm.) high
LATE QING DYNASTY
The vase is molded and carved with various bands of archaistic decoration including two registers of angular dragon scroll reserved on a leiwen ground on the body, and bands of triangular blades on the lower body and neck which are reserved on a ground of robin's egg blue enamel and gold in imitation of bronze encrustation, which is repeated on the interior of the neck and on the base around an apocryphal Qianlong gilt and molded seal mark. A pair of large mask and ring handles is applied to the shoulder.
20½ in. (52 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, United States, before 1968, and thence by descent within the family.
Further details
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Michael Bass
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