A MASSIVE TURQUOISE-GROUND CYLINDRICAL VESSEL
19TH CENTURY
Of Dayazhai-type, delicately painted in famille rose and grisaille with hydrangeas, chrysanthemum, rose, daisy and peony, between ogival panels and key pattern at the foot and ruyi lappets and Buddhist emblems at the neck - 36 3/4 in. (93.3 cm.) high
Lot Essay
Compare the style of painting of the center section with that on a much smaller cylindrical vase with Guangxu mark illustrated by Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, pl. 83