Lot Essay
A Qianlong-marked bottle vase with similar decoration was included in the National Palace Museum Special Exhibition of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Porcelain, Catalogue, p. 104, no. 75.
Compare with an equally rare blue-glazed garlic-head bottle vase enamelled in famille rose with a fruiting peach tree, lingzhi and bats in flight, in the Tokyo National Museum illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 1, fig. 166; in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 15, pl. 226 and again in Ming and Qing Ceramics and Works of Art in the Osaka Museum, p. 44, fig. 201. A comparable Yongzheng, garlic-headed vase with birds on bamboo reserved on a coral ground is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu in Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, vol. 5, p. 113. A related coral ground garlic vase is illustrated in China Museum Collections, Jingdezhen Polychrome Ceramics, vol. 21, col. pl. 92.
(US$35,000-40,000)
Compare with an equally rare blue-glazed garlic-head bottle vase enamelled in famille rose with a fruiting peach tree, lingzhi and bats in flight, in the Tokyo National Museum illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 1, fig. 166; in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 15, pl. 226 and again in Ming and Qing Ceramics and Works of Art in the Osaka Museum, p. 44, fig. 201. A comparable Yongzheng, garlic-headed vase with birds on bamboo reserved on a coral ground is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu in Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, vol. 5, p. 113. A related coral ground garlic vase is illustrated in China Museum Collections, Jingdezhen Polychrome Ceramics, vol. 21, col. pl. 92.
(US$35,000-40,000)