QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Details

A LARGE MOULDED AND CARVED CELADON-GLAZED ‘LOTUS’ VASE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The ovoid body and tall waisted neck are moulded and carved with a bold design of stylised lotus blooms on scrolling stems bearing curling feathery leaves, applied overall with a rich sea-green glaze pooling to a deeper tone in the recesses and continuing over the widely flaring dished mouth rim into the interior.
19 1⁄4 in. (48.8 cm) high

Provenance

Alfred E. Guntermann (1943-2013) Collection
Sold at Christie’s New York, 18-19 September 2014, lot 865

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

This vase, decorated with bold designs of luxuriant lotus scrolls, is very rare. Compare with a very similar vase bearing a Qianlong impressed mark on the base sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 9 July 2020, lot 2843, and a smaller vase (31.5 cm.) of similar form and decoration with an underglaze-blue Qianlong seal mark from the Huaihaitang illustrated in Ethereal Elegance: Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing, Hong Kong, 2007, no. 51.

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