QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
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A YANGCAI RUBY-GROUND SGRAFFITO ‘LOTUS’ VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each side of the vase is enamelled with a blue ruyi-border intertwined with a lotus scroll, against a ruby-red sgraffito ground. The neck is painted with a yellow-ground panel containing a lotus bloom on each side, flanked by a pair of tubular handles decorated with blue-enamelled florettes on a scrolling ground.
10 1/8 in. (25.8 cm.) high
Exhibited
Capital Museum, Beijing, Treasures of Hong Kong: The 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s Handover, 2018, Catalogue, p. 181, no. 188