A FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE OCTAGONAL VASE AND COVER delicately enamelled on each side with an ogival panel containing two swallows perched on tree peony, two butterflies on a chrysanthemum spray with two smaller insects in flight above, two love-birds perched on a prunus branch above peony, two butterflies in flight above poppy, two long-tailed birds perched on a prunus branch beside magnolia and peony, a cicada in flight approaching another perched on a hibiscus branch, and a butterfly in flight above a dragonfly hovering on a narcissus spray beside rose sprays, each within a pale yellow border moulded in imitation of bamboo and reserved on a black ground enriched with scrolling flowering foliage, the shoulder with a band of overlapping pink petals repeated at the foot, and the short neck with eight quatrefoil landscape and vase panels reserved on a puce cell-pattern ground within moulded bamboo borders, the domed cover similarly enamelled and surmounted by a painted and gilt biscuit seated Buddhistic lion finial, Yongzheng | Christie's

拍品 101

101

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE OCTAGONAL VASE AND COVER delicately enamelled on each side with an ogival panel containing two swallows perched on tree peony, two butterflies on a chrysanthemum spray with two smaller insects in flight above, two love-birds perched on a prunus branch above peony, two butterflies in flight above poppy, two long-tailed birds perched on a prunus branch beside magnolia and peony, a cicada in flight approaching another perched on a hibiscus branch, and a butterfly in flight above a dragonfly hovering on a narcissus spray beside rose sprays, each within a pale yellow border moulded in imitation of bamboo and reserved on a black ground enriched with scrolling flowering foliage, the shoulder with a band of overlapping pink petals repeated at the foot, and the short neck with eight quatrefoil landscape and vase panels reserved on a puce cell-pattern ground within moulded bamboo borders, the domed cover similarly enamelled and surmounted by a painted and gilt biscuit seated Buddhistic lion finial, Yongzheng

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A FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE OCTAGONAL VASE AND COVER delicately enamelled on each side with an ogival panel containing two swallows perched on tree peony, two butterflies on a chrysanthemum spray with two smaller insects in flight above, two love-birds perched on a prunus branch above peony, two butterflies in flight above poppy, two long-tailed birds perched on a prunus branch beside magnolia and peony, a cicada in flight approaching another perched on a hibiscus branch, and a butterfly in flight above a dragonfly hovering on a narcissus spray beside rose sprays, each within a pale yellow border moulded in imitation of bamboo and reserved on a black ground enriched with scrolling flowering foliage, the shoulder with a band of overlapping pink petals repeated at the foot, and the short neck with eight quatrefoil landscape and vase panels reserved on a puce cell-pattern ground within moulded bamboo borders, the domed cover similarly enamelled and surmounted by a painted and gilt biscuit seated Buddhistic lion finial, Yongzheng
90cm. high

拍品專文

Cf. the square brushpot in the Brian S. McElney Collection, exhibited in Hong Kong, 1987, Catalogue, no.104, pp.150 and 151, which has similar decoration and almost identical 'bamboo' borders to this vase.