Lot Essay
Previously sold in Hong Kong, 28 October 1992, lot 170.
It is unusual to find vases of this form and no other doucai decorated example appears to have been published. Compare the elegant shape of the present lot with a similar gilded lobed vase with stylised dragon handles from the Palace Museum collection, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 394, no. 76. Also, another Qianlong-marked blue and white vase painted with bats and clouds above rocks and waves illustrated in Qingdai Taoci Daquan, Chinese Ceramics of the Qing Dynasty, p. 231.
The peculiarity of this form is probably a derivative of the elongated elliptical vases with lug-handles; for an example with green enamel on a yellow-ground, cf. Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 442, no. 124.
Compare the similar decorative elements to a pair of cloisonne enamel lobed baluster vases of the same period illustrated by Brinker and Lutz, Chinese Cloisonne: The Pierre Uldry Collection, no. 282. It is probable that artistic inspiration for this elaborate and complex design on porcelain is inspired by cloisonne enamels.
(US$45,000-55,000)
It is unusual to find vases of this form and no other doucai decorated example appears to have been published. Compare the elegant shape of the present lot with a similar gilded lobed vase with stylised dragon handles from the Palace Museum collection, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 394, no. 76. Also, another Qianlong-marked blue and white vase painted with bats and clouds above rocks and waves illustrated in Qingdai Taoci Daquan, Chinese Ceramics of the Qing Dynasty, p. 231.
The peculiarity of this form is probably a derivative of the elongated elliptical vases with lug-handles; for an example with green enamel on a yellow-ground, cf. Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 442, no. 124.
Compare the similar decorative elements to a pair of cloisonne enamel lobed baluster vases of the same period illustrated by Brinker and Lutz, Chinese Cloisonne: The Pierre Uldry Collection, no. 282. It is probable that artistic inspiration for this elaborate and complex design on porcelain is inspired by cloisonne enamels.
(US$45,000-55,000)