Lot Essay
Previously sold in Hong Kong, 24 November 1987, lot 67.
No other vase of this design is recorded.
A similar shaped vase painted with a central floral scroll around the body from the T. Y. Chao Private and Family Foundation was included in the exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 62; also at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, 1978, Catalogue, no. 66, and subsequently sold in these Rooms, 1 October 1991, lot 831.
Another similar vase painted with floral sprays in vertical arrangements is illustrated in Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art, 1981, Catalogue, p. 113.
'Lantern'-shaped vases occur rarely in the Yongzheng period, although 'lantern'-shaped storage jars with covers are commonly found in blue and white porcelain. This shape is recorded by Geng Baochang in Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Qingdai Bufen, p. 74, no. 4; and famille rose versions of this shape became more widespread under the Qianlong Emperor. See Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, col. pl. 31, p. 350, for an example of the type; and another with sanduo pattern on a blue and gilt ground, ibid, col. pl. 38, p. 357.
No other vase of this design is recorded.
A similar shaped vase painted with a central floral scroll around the body from the T. Y. Chao Private and Family Foundation was included in the exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 62; also at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, 1978, Catalogue, no. 66, and subsequently sold in these Rooms, 1 October 1991, lot 831.
Another similar vase painted with floral sprays in vertical arrangements is illustrated in Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art, 1981, Catalogue, p. 113.
'Lantern'-shaped vases occur rarely in the Yongzheng period, although 'lantern'-shaped storage jars with covers are commonly found in blue and white porcelain. This shape is recorded by Geng Baochang in Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Qingdai Bufen, p. 74, no. 4; and famille rose versions of this shape became more widespread under the Qianlong Emperor. See Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, col. pl. 31, p. 350, for an example of the type; and another with sanduo pattern on a blue and gilt ground, ibid, col. pl. 38, p. 357.