YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE 'FIGURAL' BALUSTER VASE
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
The vase is finely decorated in bright enamels with a continuous scene depicting an elegant lady carrying a vase and empty basket addressing a fisherman with a long staff slung over his shoulders, watched by a robed gentleman sipping wine on a riverboat with his wife and small child to his side, a pink jacket strung out on a pole drying in the wind behind them. The reverse is decorated with a bold design of a large plantain tree and rocks and the neck is further embellished with a wrapped qin and censer.
15 1/8 in. (38.2 cm.) high

Provenance

With Salle des Ventes des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 29 February 1956.
Collection of Professor and Mrs Robert de Strycker, Belgium.

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Lot Essay

A similar vase is illustrated by Li Yihua in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, 1989, p.213, no.42 and again, by Yang Xin in Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1999, Vol. 39, p.61, no.51.

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