A Rare Carved Three-Color Lacquer Flattened Baluster Vase

QIANLONG

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A Rare Carved Three-Color Lacquer Flattened Baluster Vase
Qianlong
Each lobe well carved through the red outer layer to the dark green and ochre layers with panels of figures in landscapes, all bordered by foliate sprays reserved on a diaper ground set between petal lappet borders, the pedestal foot encircled by foliate scroll, the neck by upright leaf tips, with metal liner
12¼in. (31.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the vase of this same unusual begonia form illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Carved Lacquer Ware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, no. 31, and another view of the same vase illustrated in the Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Lacquerware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981, no. 63.

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