A FINE AND LARGE FAMILLE ROSE PEAR-SHAPED VASE

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

細節

A FINE AND LARGE FAMILLE ROSE PEAR-SHAPED VASE
YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG

Finely painted and detailed with a Daoist scene depicting Xi Wangmu seated on a rocky promontory beneath the crossed feather fans held by two young maidens framed within a rocky grotto, with seven further maidens holding offerings of various 'auspicious' objects, including a large peach, standing in attendance to one side below an immortal carrying a stolen peach branch hiding amidst the rocks while two groups of figures stand below, one group comprising the Eight Daoist Immortals borne atop the waves of a sea, while Liuhai standing atop his three-legged toad is borne towards the scene on a vaporous, blue cloud, the other group comprising five sages holding scrolls, all amidst rocks executed in a painterly style in grisaille, and with Shoulao seated on a crane in flight above the entire scene
25½in. (64.8cm.) high, wood stand

來源

Li Hung Zhang, Viceroy of China
Hu Sin Yang, Hangzhou
Alfred Trepnell, Bournemouth, England, no. 150
S. Gorer & Son, London
General Brayton Ives

出版

Gorer and Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hardstones, vol. II, London, 1911, col. pl. 215

拍品專文

For other famille rose vases of similar shape with cup-shaped mouths and wide bodies see Ernst Zimmerman, Chinesisches Porzellan, Leipzig, 1923, p. 140, and Kangxi.Yongzheng.Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Taipei, 1989, p. 214, fig. 43. A less finely painted example of similar shape with Daoist immortals around the body is illustrated by W. G. Gulland in Chinese Porcelain, London, 1948, vol. I, no. 326; and another vase of globular shape, with Daoist immortals amidst waves, is also illustrated by Gulland, ibid., vol. II, no. 657