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Lot Essay
Ceramicists from the imperial kilns were encouraged to experiment, and the technique of porcelain imitating other materials found favor with the Qianlong Emperor, who was fascinated with the curious and the archaic. The designs outlined in gilt against turquoise on the present vase imitate cloisonné enamel, and exemplify this innovative technique, demonstrating both the technical mastery and creative experimentation of the imperial workshops during the Qianlong reign.
A pair of nearly identical Qianlong vases of similar size (15.5 cm. high) and with a gilt Qianlong seal mark, but with a pink key-fret border at the foot to the is in the Meiyintang Collection, and illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. 4, London, 2010, p. 1775, no. 312.
For another famille rose turquoise-ground comparable, see a square teapot decorated with lotus scroll motifs similarly outlined with gilt, bearing a six-character Qianlong seal mark in gold enamel on the base, in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1973, no. 48. See, also, a rare, small cloisonné-imitation white-ground vase with gilt-decorated brown archaistic handles and gilt Qianlong seal mark on the neck, sold in A Selection of Qing Imperial Porcelain; Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 26 November 2020, lot 119.
A pair of nearly identical Qianlong vases of similar size (15.5 cm. high) and with a gilt Qianlong seal mark, but with a pink key-fret border at the foot to the is in the Meiyintang Collection, and illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. 4, London, 2010, p. 1775, no. 312.
For another famille rose turquoise-ground comparable, see a square teapot decorated with lotus scroll motifs similarly outlined with gilt, bearing a six-character Qianlong seal mark in gold enamel on the base, in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1973, no. 48. See, also, a rare, small cloisonné-imitation white-ground vase with gilt-decorated brown archaistic handles and gilt Qianlong seal mark on the neck, sold in A Selection of Qing Imperial Porcelain; Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 26 November 2020, lot 119.