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Lot Essay
This impressive vase is gracefully composed with a cluster of luxuriant flora dominating the larger part of the porcelain surface while deliberately leaving a smaller area of undecorated surface to achieve a harmonising balance and pleasing visual effect. Its well-proportioned construction and exquisite enamelling truly attest to the consummate skills of the artisans at the imperial kilns during the Yongzheng period.
Globular vases of similar size and design bearing Yongzheng marks are known including an example from the Palmer Collection, illustrated by Soame Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. XC, fig. 2; one illustrated by Beurdeley in la Ceramique Chinoise, Paris, 1974, col. pls. 91 and 92; one sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 October 1991, lot 252; and one similarly decorated but with an additional peony branch in place of the magnolia, previously from the Yokogawa Collection and now in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 1, Kyoto, 1982, col. pl. 80. Compare also to a smaller example decorated with clusters of chrysanthemum from the Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke Collection, sold at Sotheby's New York, 31 May 1989, lot 221.
Yongzheng tianqiuping of similar size but enamelled with different motifs are also published, such as the example with branches bearing eight peaches and blossoms in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 45; and another one painted with nine quails amid rocks and plants also in the Palace Museum, illustrated in Selected Porcelain of the Flourishing Qing Dynasty at the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1994, pl. 28. Compare also to a Qianlong tianqiuping of similar height enamelled with nine peaches from the Meiyintang Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5 October 2011, lot 15.
Globular vases of similar size and design bearing Yongzheng marks are known including an example from the Palmer Collection, illustrated by Soame Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. XC, fig. 2; one illustrated by Beurdeley in la Ceramique Chinoise, Paris, 1974, col. pls. 91 and 92; one sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 October 1991, lot 252; and one similarly decorated but with an additional peony branch in place of the magnolia, previously from the Yokogawa Collection and now in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 1, Kyoto, 1982, col. pl. 80. Compare also to a smaller example decorated with clusters of chrysanthemum from the Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke Collection, sold at Sotheby's New York, 31 May 1989, lot 221.
Yongzheng tianqiuping of similar size but enamelled with different motifs are also published, such as the example with branches bearing eight peaches and blossoms in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 45; and another one painted with nine quails amid rocks and plants also in the Palace Museum, illustrated in Selected Porcelain of the Flourishing Qing Dynasty at the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1994, pl. 28. Compare also to a Qianlong tianqiuping of similar height enamelled with nine peaches from the Meiyintang Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5 October 2011, lot 15.