YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

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AN EXTREMELY RARE IRON-RED AND GILT-DECORATED VASE
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
The elegant baluster vase of hexagonal section, finely enamelled in rich iron-red tones to the facetted neck and similarly tapered body with two panels enclosing ascending dragons flanked by a pair of panels of confronted desending dragons, both above a border of rolling and cresting waves, the flared base with further borders of formal plantain leaves, the stepped foot with a key-fret border, each band of decoration divided by a raised border of finely pencilled gilt flowers or thin gilt bands
16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm.) high, stand, box

Provenance

Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 April 1996, lot 467; and again at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 November 2004, lot 862

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Lot Essay

No other vase of this rare form and decoration appears to be published. This vase was most certainly part of an altar garniture and can be most closely compared to another pair of famille rose yellow-ground vases of this very rare form bearing Yongzheng marks from the collection of Colonel H.S. Stern, sold at Christie's London, 7 April 1982, lot 62, together with the censer. A single vase from this set is illustrated by Anthony du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Phaidon-Christie's, Oxford, 1984, p. 248, fig. 2; and illustrated again in Sotheby's Hong Kong, Twenty Years, 1993, pl. 296. Another such vase in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, 1981, pl. 99.

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