A VERY FINE PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASES AND COVERS

YONGZHENG (1723-35)

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A VERY FINE PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASES AND COVERS
yongzheng (1723-35)
Each very finely enamelled with a continuous scene depicting cockerels, hens and their chicks on a grassy bank, a further cockerel perched on striated rockwork, and pairs of smaller birds, including swallows and love-birds, in flight and perched on a branch, all amongst tree peony, rose, and prunus, the shoulder with delicate pale green cell and Y-pattern ruyi-shaped floral lappets below sprays of morning glory at the necks, and an ogee band of puce cell-pattern reserved with floral cartouches above the foot, the domed covers enamelled with a similar band on the rims and similar flowering foliage below the large lotus-bud finials, one cover with some restoration
24 in. (61 cm.) high, Louis XVI-style gilt-wood and marble stands, 71 in. (181.5 cm.) high overall (2)

拍場告示

Please note one vase has two short cracks at neck.

拍品專文

It is rare to find such large examples with exceptionally finely enamelled decoration. The quality of these vases is of the type found on smaller objects, such as eggshell dishes of the period.

Compare the very similar vase of the same height, part of a garniture of three, from the Collection of John Morrison, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, 1951, pl.LIII, fig.1 and again by George C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, 1970, colour pl.LIV, while in the collection of Hugh Morrison.