A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE SMALL GARDEN STOOLS

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A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE SMALL GARDEN STOOLS
DAOGUANG IRON-RED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

Each small barrel-shaped seat is pierced on the sides with four gilt ruyi panels, evenly spaced among vividly enamelled sprays of lotus blossoms and leaves at various stages of growth, all against a lime-green graviata ground, between black-enamelled bands moulded with drum-nail studs and painted in gilt with foliate scrolls, the top of the seat with an octafoil medallion enclosing lotus sprays on a green ground, surrounded by detached floral sprigs on a deep pink graviata ground, the base turquoise enamelled
12 1/4 in. (31 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Frank Partridge & Sons Ltd.

Lot Essay

For a larger stool designed with this same lotus pattern dated to the Qianlong period, measuring 52.9 cm. high, in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, cf., Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 367, no. 48, and illustrated again in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Commercial Press, 1999, p. 284, no. 259.

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