Lot Essay
Previously sold in Hong Kong, 23 May 1978, lot 240.
No other vase with this elaborate decoration appears to be published.
Compare the present vase with a large doucai-enamelled jardinere, gang, similarly decorated with lotus medallions and interlocking ruyi-heads, illustrated in Selected Ceramics From the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. J.M. Hu, Shanghai Museum, no. 68, p. 104; another related example is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 15, no. 94-95, p. 87.
Hydrangea, xiuqiu, is a homonym for 'longevity ball' and thus holds an auspicious meaning. For other examples of the very rare hydrangea motif found on Qing porcelain, cf. a Kangxi-marked floral dish from the Jingguantang collection sold in these Rooms, 5 November 1997, lot 876; and a Kangxi yuzhi-marked bowl with a spray of hydrangeas prominent among other flowers on a yellow-ground sold in Hong Kong, 13 May 1976, lot 364.
(US$450,000-580,000)
No other vase with this elaborate decoration appears to be published.
Compare the present vase with a large doucai-enamelled jardinere, gang, similarly decorated with lotus medallions and interlocking ruyi-heads, illustrated in Selected Ceramics From the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. J.M. Hu, Shanghai Museum, no. 68, p. 104; another related example is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 15, no. 94-95, p. 87.
Hydrangea, xiuqiu, is a homonym for 'longevity ball' and thus holds an auspicious meaning. For other examples of the very rare hydrangea motif found on Qing porcelain, cf. a Kangxi-marked floral dish from the Jingguantang collection sold in these Rooms, 5 November 1997, lot 876; and a Kangxi yuzhi-marked bowl with a spray of hydrangeas prominent among other flowers on a yellow-ground sold in Hong Kong, 13 May 1976, lot 364.
(US$450,000-580,000)