A FINE AND RARE CANTON ENAMEL SQUARE BALUSTER VASE

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A FINE AND RARE CANTON ENAMEL SQUARE BALUSTER VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The neck with two dragon handles, resting on a waisted spreading base, finely painted in the famille rose palette with 'European-Subject' panels depicting a couple resting under an oak tree with a young girl and a dog before Western buildings in a valley, alternating with riverscapes containing houses below spindly trees, all reserved on a pale yellow ground embellished with peony and lotus meander (enamel chips under one corner of base)--12 7/8in. (32.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

A comparable vase from the British Museum, London, is illustrated by Soame Jenyns, Chinese Art, The Minor Arts, p. 246, no. 113. A related vase with comparable landscape panels reserved on a similar ground and with a similar mark from the Palace Museum, Beijing, was included in the exhibition Tributes from Guandong to the Qing Court, 1987, Catalogue, no.44.

Previously sold in these Rooms, 30 September 1992, lot 894

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