Live Auction 2811The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A VERY RARE DOCUMENTARY FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASE
Lot 1932THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A VERY RARE DOCUMENTARY FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASE

Closed31 May 2010

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HKD 1,220,000

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A VERY RARE DOCUMENTARY FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASE
XUANTONG PERIOD (1908-1911)
Finely enamelled to the body with the immortal Magu holding a large basket of blossoming flowers seated on the back of a cart pulled by a deer, accompanied by her attendant on foot holding a smaller basket of flowers, all set amongst a landscape of pine and rocky outcrops below two cranes in flight, the base with an underglaze-blue seventeen character inscription Qing guo kao zha shi ye duan jing zeng, xi ci ye gong si te zhi , 'Respectfully presented by the Industrial Study Group of the Qing Empire, specially made by the Jiangxi Porcelain Company'
15 7/8 in. (18.5 cm.) high, box

The Yangzhitang Collection
Previously sold at Christie's Singapore, The Yangzhitang Collection of Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing Dynasty, 30 March 1997, lot 298
The Jingyitang Collection

Specialist note

The Jiangxi Porcelain Company was known to have been established in 1910 and carried on into the early years of the Republic. The inscription on the vase, however, clearly dates this to the Qing dynasty and therefore makes this piece an important stylistic reference point in dating porcelain of the late Qing and early Republic periods as noted by S. Kwan in the introduction to the 1983 University of Hong Kong exhibition catalogue of Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, p. 33.