Lot Essay
Cf. G.C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, pl.LVII, fig.I, for a comparable vase from the collection of the Hon. Mrs. Ronald Greville.
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A PAIR OF IMPORTANT FINE FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASES AND COVERS
EARLY QIANLONG
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A PAIR OF IMPORTANT FINE FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASES AND COVERS
early qianlong
Each boldly enamelled around the slender body with a pair of phoenix perched beside rockwork on a grassy terrace issuing tree peony and prunus amongst pairs of smaller birds, including cranes and doves, between a band of puce lappets around the foot and composite comma-scroll, cell-, cloud-, and wave-pattern shaped panels enriched with flower-heads around the shoulder, all below a wide pale green cell-pattern band reserved with deer in quatrefoil panels at the waisted neck, the domed covers with puce cell-pattern reserved with turquoise shaped cartouches above a trellis-pattern band at the flat rims, finials replaced, one cover cracked
53in. (135cm.) high (2)
early qianlong
Each boldly enamelled around the slender body with a pair of phoenix perched beside rockwork on a grassy terrace issuing tree peony and prunus amongst pairs of smaller birds, including cranes and doves, between a band of puce lappets around the foot and composite comma-scroll, cell-, cloud-, and wave-pattern shaped panels enriched with flower-heads around the shoulder, all below a wide pale green cell-pattern band reserved with deer in quatrefoil panels at the waisted neck, the domed covers with puce cell-pattern reserved with turquoise shaped cartouches above a trellis-pattern band at the flat rims, finials replaced, one cover cracked
53in. (135cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Edmund de Rothschild, Esq., T.D., sold in these Rooms, 28 July 1975, lot 181
Literature
A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, colour plate, p.250