A PAIR OF FINE FAMILLE ROSE 'SOLDIER' VASES AND COVERS

YONGZHENG PERIOD, CIRCA 1730-35

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A PAIR OF FINE FAMILLE ROSE 'SOLDIER' VASES AND COVERS
YONGZHENG PERIOD, CIRCA 1730-35
The massive vases finely and delicately enamelled with a phoenix and smaller birds amongst tree peony, prunus and other flowering branches, below ornate, pastel-coloured floral panels at the shoulders and quatrefoil deer cartouches on a pale green, cracked-ice-pattern ground at the neck, the domed covers similarly enamelled with seated Buddhist lion finials
53 in. (135 cm.) high, giltwood stands (2)

Provenance

Edmund de Rothschild, Esq., T.D.; Christie's London, 28 July 1975, lot 181 (colour frontispiece).
Anon. Sale; Christie's London, 10 June 1996, lot 135.
With Cohen & Cohen.

Literature

A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, colour plate, p.250.

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Lot Essay

A similar vase is in the Collection Bal, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg and is illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 79. Another single example with similar decoration was in the collection of Mrs. Ronald Greville, and is illustrated by G. C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, London, 1927, plate LVII.

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