Live Auction 2872Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A RARE BLUE, RED AND YELLOW OVERLAY SEMI-OPAQUE WHITE VASE
Lot 1155

A RARE BLUE, RED AND YELLOW OVERLAY SEMI-OPAQUE WHITE VASE

18TH CENTURY

Closed19 September 2014

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USD 12,500

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A RARE BLUE, RED AND YELLOW OVERLAY SEMI-OPAQUE WHITE VASE
18TH CENTURY
The high-shouldered, tapering vase is raised on an integral cobalt-blue stand with four ruyi-shaped feet, and is carved through the soft blue overlay on one side with a prunus branch that rises up the neck towards the galleried mouth, and on the reverse with a peony branch that descends from the neck beside three butterflies carved from the red and mottled yellow and red overlay.
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high

Imperial Oriental Art, New York, 2001.
Hugh W. Greenberg (1930-2013) Collection, Franklin, Michigan.

Specialist note

The tones of the blue, yellow and red overlay on this vase are similar to those of the overlay seen on a white-ground bottle vase which is carved through the blue overlay with a similar flowering branch, from the Shorenstein Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2940.