TWO DOCUMENTARY FAMILLE ROSE VASES, finely painted to the exterior one with five ladies holding their attributes, the other with a Daoist Immortal and two young servants, each vase inscribed and signed by the artist, iron-red Hongxian seal mark and probably of the period

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TWO DOCUMENTARY FAMILLE ROSE VASES, finely painted to the exterior one with five ladies holding their attributes, the other with a Daoist Immortal and two young servants, each vase inscribed and signed by the artist, iron-red Hongxian seal mark and probably of the period
34cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

These vases are illustrated by Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, p.151, pl.202,
This group of wares has been considered absolutely genuine until recently, some modern scholars question whether any ceramics at all which bear Hongxian reign marks were in fact made during the very brief period of his reign.

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