A MASSIVE PAINTED ENAMEL JARDINIÈRE

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A MASSIVE PAINTED ENAMEL JARDINIÈRE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD

The rounded, tapering body decorated with four shou medallions surrounded by a ring of blue interlocking dragons on a pink band and an outer ring of the wu fu in pink, all reserved against a yellow ground richly decorated in a famille rose palette with a dense design of foliate scroll incorporating blue dragons, with various decorative bands below and above and a final border of blue dragons below the lipped rim, the interior of deep turquoise color with a blue foliate medallion painted in the center
24in. (61cm.) diam., wood stand

Lot Essay

Compare a jardiniére of similar shape and size, also painted with a dense famille rose-decorated yellow ground, but incorporating large shaped panels enclosing fu characters in archaistic script, rather than shou-character roundels encircled by the wu fu, as in the present example, included in the exhibition, Art Treasures from Birthday Celebrations at the Qing Court, The Palace Museum, Hong Kong, Catalogue, no. 64