A VERY FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CORAL-GROUND TEAPOTS AND COVERS

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A VERY FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CORAL-GROUND TEAPOTS AND COVERS
QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each vessel has a flattened oval body, with a scrolling handle and square-sectioned spout joined to the shoulder of the vessel by a pierced strut, each side of the body delicately enamelled on slightly recessed quatrefoil panels in pink, green, blue, brown, yellow, black, white and gilt, with figures and pavilions in secluded landscapes, reserved on a coral ground with enamelled floral scrolls and gilt foliate meanders, the foot and neck with leaves on a yellow ground, the domed cover with further floral scrolls on a gilt and coral ground below a gilt bud finial, the interior rims of cover and tips of spout enamelled with turquoise on biscuit, the reign mark under a transparent glaze
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) high, box (2)

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Christie's London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2-14 June 1993, Catalogue, no. 99.

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Previously sold in our New York Rooms, 29 November 1984, lot 384.

This pair is an exceptional example of the way in which Qing painters on occasion used the porcelain surface as a canvas on which to paint a picture, rather than purely as a ceramic vessel with decoration. The picture suggests the monumentality of the mountains in the tradition of Northern Song Chinese painting, and the blue and green style of painting associated with the Ming period. The genre, using crisp, detailed brushstrokes and bright colours, was closely associated with the talented professional Suzhou artist, Qiu Ying, active circa 1510-1551. During the Ming and Qing periods, 'painterly' landscapes can be found ornamenting lacquer and textiles, as well as porcelain.

The present lot appears to be unique as no other teapots of this form and with this design seem to have been published. However, there are several globular teapots with panels each painted with a landscape or similar scene on one side and a lengthy poem in kaishu script on the other. Cf. the example illustrated by H. Moss, By Imperial Command, pl. 86, and another in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, 1989, p. 365, no. 46.