AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE ROSE 'CAMELLIA' VASE

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AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE ROSE 'CAMELLIA' VASE
QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

The vase has rounded sides incurved at the shoulder and a tall neck with a lipped rim, finely enamelled around the exterior with a large iron-red camellia and two lichen-speckled boughs of flowering prunus, the grey branch with white flowers and the brown one bearing pink blossoms and multi-hued lingzhi fungus, the base inscribed with the iron-red four-character hallmark, Baoshang Tang Zhi, Made for the Hall of Precious and Virtuous
12 1/8 in. (30.8 cm.) high

Lot Essay

It is very likely that the present vase takes its inspiration from the large Yongzheng-marked dishes with comparable decoration, such as the dish from the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, 1989, p. 222, pl. 51, which is in mirror-image to the dish sold in these Rooms, 31 October 2000, lot 910.

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