A FAMILLE ROSE LIME-GREEN-GROUND VASE

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A FAMILLE ROSE LIME-GREEN-GROUND VASE
IRON-RED QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The pear-shaped body and tall neck enamelled with a lotus meander in delicate tones with two elaborate blooms supporting a fruiting peach branch below a bat in flight, the unusual moulded handles formed as iron-red bats clutching gilt lingzhi, the everted rim above a border of overlapping ruyi-heads, the base with a lotus-lappet border above key-fret around the foot, all reserved on an even lime-green ground, the interior and base turquoise-glazed (enamel flakes, nicks to handles retouched, small restored rim chip)
11in. (28cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Compare the related green-ground vase included in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Catalogue, no.96. Compare also the turquoise-ground vase with bat handles above moulded peaches sold in Hong Kong, 1-2 November 1994, lot 196. A lime-green-ground meiping with related decoration sold in these Rooms, 19 January 1988, lot 366

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