QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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AN IMPERIAL AND INSCRIBED FAMILLE ROSE CELADON-GLAZED WALL VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase is finely painted with a shaped medallion with a pavilion built into the hillside beside a lake in a mountainous landscape, inscribed with an excerpt from an imperial poem, followed by an iron-red seal of Qianlong, against a celadon-glazed ground decorated with western-style floral sprays.
7 3/16 in. (18.1 cm.) high, wood stand

Provenance

Sold at Sotheby’s London, 14 December 1976, lot 139
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28 November 1979, lot 235
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 22 May 1984, lot 141
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 27 October 1993, lot 259

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Lot Essay

The inscription on the present vase is taken from one of fifteen poems on landscapes titled Xiaoyun xianyong composed by the Emperor Qianlong when he was still Prince Bao, and is recorded in Yuzhi Leshantang quanji dingben [Complete works from the Delight in Goodness Hall, by His Majesty], juan 27. During the second year of the Qianlong reign, the Emperor commissioned Tang Dai to paint a set of fifteen album leaves to accompany each of these poems, which is in the Palace Museum, Beijing.

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