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A VERY RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CYLINDRICAL JARS AND COVER
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A VERY RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CYLINDRICAL JARS AND COVER
IRON-RED QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD
Each delicately painted around the body with the eight Immortals holding their respective attributes and variously riding through waves on a lotus leaf, a peach, a branch, a crab, a donkey, a buffalo, a carp and a phoenix, amongst bats in flight, all between two bands of ruyi-lappets enriched with formal flower-scrolls on a deep pink sgraffiato-ground and two further narrow bands of blue key-pattern, the shallow domed covers similarly decorated with chrysanthemum knop finials, the interiors and bases turquoise (one cover restored and one rim with minute frit)--10¾in. (27.5cm.) high (2)
IRON-RED QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD
Each delicately painted around the body with the eight Immortals holding their respective attributes and variously riding through waves on a lotus leaf, a peach, a branch, a crab, a donkey, a buffalo, a carp and a phoenix, amongst bats in flight, all between two bands of ruyi-lappets enriched with formal flower-scrolls on a deep pink sgraffiato-ground and two further narrow bands of blue key-pattern, the shallow domed covers similarly decorated with chrysanthemum knop finials, the interiors and bases turquoise (one cover restored and one rim with minute frit)--10¾in. (27.5cm.) high (2)