Lot Essay
It is very rare to find gold ground ceramics bearing Qianlong seal marks. However, a gold-ground famille rose Tibetan-style ewer from the K.S. Lo Collection, and now in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, was included in the Special Exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Catalogue, no. 68; another was sold in Hong Kong, 19 November 1986, lot 272.
For vases decorated with this very rare design of scrolling melon and butterflies, cf. a Qianlong famille rose meiping with gilt rims in the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, col. pl. 125; and a large celadon-ground famille rose oviform vase with gilt handles and rims decorated with butterflies in attitudes similar to the present lot sold in our London Rooms, 6 June 1988, lot 103
For vases decorated with this very rare design of scrolling melon and butterflies, cf. a Qianlong famille rose meiping with gilt rims in the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, col. pl. 125; and a large celadon-ground famille rose oviform vase with gilt handles and rims decorated with butterflies in attitudes similar to the present lot sold in our London Rooms, 6 June 1988, lot 103