Lot Essay
For a similar example with a gilt-decorated brown ground and identical configuration of peaches and lingzhi see Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods, Palace Museum, Taipei, no. 44, p. 363. Another with tea-dust ground from the Fuller Collection, Seattle Art Museum was illustrated by Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol.II, 1949, pl. 171 and also in the Seattle Art Museum Handbook, 1972, No. 158
For two other examples in which the peaches are replaced with fruiting pomegranate see American Art Association, New York, January 24 and 25, 1930, The Ton-Ying Collection, lot 325; and S. W. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, 1980, fig. 283 from the W. T. Walters Collection. The ground of the first is rose-pink and the second tea-dust
The interior of the vase is most unusual. There is an inner, tri-lobed wall continuing from the mouth rim to the foot pierced with a series of apertures alternately located on the ribs and the lobes below the neck. The interior is therefore double-walled and presumably built this way to aid the firing process; most likely the final product of previous failed attempts
For two other examples in which the peaches are replaced with fruiting pomegranate see American Art Association, New York, January 24 and 25, 1930, The Ton-Ying Collection, lot 325; and S. W. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, 1980, fig. 283 from the W. T. Walters Collection. The ground of the first is rose-pink and the second tea-dust
The interior of the vase is most unusual. There is an inner, tri-lobed wall continuing from the mouth rim to the foot pierced with a series of apertures alternately located on the ribs and the lobes below the neck. The interior is therefore double-walled and presumably built this way to aid the firing process; most likely the final product of previous failed attempts