Lot 376
376
OTHER PROPERTIES
A PAIR OF GILT-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE-GROUND VASES

Details
A PAIR OF GILT-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE-GROUND VASES
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER GILT MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each bulbous body decorated with a dragon and phoenix confronted on a flaming pearl amidst clouds above a band of frothing waves and below a band of lotus scroll and shou characters, the tall waisted neck decorated with the bajixiang divided into two rows, each surrounded by an unbordered foliate reserve, with a ruyi collar below the brown-dressed mouth rim, all reserved in gilding on a bright powder-blue ground, the nianhao executed in now faded gilding, gilding somewhat rubbed
15in. (38.1cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Another pair of Guangxu-marked blue-ground vases, similarly painted, but with pairs of dragons rather than the dragon and phoenix of the present example, sold in these rooms June 2, 1994, lot 86. See, also, a vase of the same shape and with a Guangxu mark, but with gilt decoration on a mirror-black ground, from the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated by van Oort, Chinese Porcelains of the 19th and 20th Centuries, The Netherlands, 1977, pl. 93