Lot Essay
A pair of slip-decorated vases of similar color, but of different shape, with Jiaqing marks, is illustrated by Gorer and Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, 1911, pl. 189
Details
A PALE TURQUOISE-GLAZED SLIP-DECORATED OVOID VASE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Decorated allover in white slip with a delicate design of lotus scroll, under a pale turquoise glaze and reserved on an opaque, darker turquoise ground, with a pair of dragon scroll handles painted in iron-red with gilt highlights flanking the slender neck, rim also gilded
10 3/8in. (26.3cm.) high
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Decorated allover in white slip with a delicate design of lotus scroll, under a pale turquoise glaze and reserved on an opaque, darker turquoise ground, with a pair of dragon scroll handles painted in iron-red with gilt highlights flanking the slender neck, rim also gilded
10 3/8in. (26.3cm.) high
Provenance
Stephen Junkunc, III