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

Details

AN EXTREMELY RARE COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'FRUIT' VASE, MEIPING
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
11 5⁄8 in. (29.4 cm) high, box

Provenance

Sir Harry Garner (1891-1977)
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 23 May 1978, lot 107

Literature

Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain. The Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1912), London, 1951, pl. XXII, fig. 2

Exhibited

Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, on loan
Chinese and Japanese Ceramics from the Collection of Sir Harry and Lady Garner, Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 1973, no. 52, pl. XXI

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Lot Essay

A closely related Qianlong-marked copper-red-decorated meiping of similar form is preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), Hong Kong, 2010, pl. 173. (fig. 1) However, it is decorated with only three auspicious fruits—peach, pomegranate and finger citron—rather than the expanded five-fruit design seen on the present vase.

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