AN UNDERGLAZE COPPER-RED LANTERN VASE

Details

AN UNDERGLAZE COPPER-RED LANTERN VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Pencilled in bright tones of crushed strawberry-red tone mottled with pale green areas to depict a wide border of flowering Indian lotus meander with feathery leaves, between borders of lotus petals, the foot and shoulder with a band of circles within single and double-line borders, original kiln crack to base
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high, box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 82.

Lot Essay

Cf. a vase of this design sold in Hong Kong, 14 November 1989, lot 120. Another was sold in London, 27 November 1973, lot 273, and again in Hong Kong, 29 November 1976, lot 500 and 17 May 1988, lot 200.

A related baluster vase pencilled in underglaze copper-red with a lotus meander is illustrated in Porcelains from the Tianjin Municipal Museum, p. 168.

(US$7,000-9,000)

More from The Jingguantang Collection

View All