CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE À SIX CARACTÈRES EN CACHET EN BLEU SOUS COUVERTE ET ÉPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

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VASE DOUBLE-GOURDE EN PORCELAINE CÉLADON
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE À SIX CARACTÈRES EN CACHET EN BLEU SOUS COUVERTE ET ÉPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
La double panse aux proportions harmonieuses terminée par un col se rétrécissant vers le bord supérieur est entièrement recouverte d'une glaçure brillante de couleur céladon.
Hauteur : 32,2 cm. (12 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Private English Collection, acquired by the current owner's parents in the 1960s, then by descent within the family.

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Further details

A CELADON-GLAZED 'DOUBLE-GOURD' VASE
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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Lot Essay

Double-gourd vases are also known as dajiping (vase of good fortune), as the double gourd symbolises fertility and good fortune. A similar vase of the same size from the Nanjing Museum was included in the The Exhibition of Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong Reigns, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, no. 69; another is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain: The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 106. A similar vase with its original small cover from the Jingguantang Collection was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 571, and again 28 October 2002, lot 723. The present lot may also be compared with the vase sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 May 2010, lot 2012; and another from the Gordon Collection sold at Christie's New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1135; and a third sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 November 2011, lot 3318.

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