A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASE
A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASE

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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The lower body is well enamelled with a continuous landscape scene depicting houses and pagodas clustered amidst rocks and trees on the banks of a river flowing from blue mountains in the background, all between complex floral bands around the foot and shoulder, the broad waisted neck decorated with exotic blooms growing from elaborately scrolling stems against a pale pink ground and applied with a pair of moulded iron-red chilong handles, below the lipped rim encircled by ruyi heads and key-fret (some restoration)
29 1/2 in. (75 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Few vases of this type are decorated with a continuous landscape, as they are more often seen with landscapes framed within medallions. Among the most comparable examples of Qianlong vases with continuous scenes are a group decorated with the 'Hundred Boys' in a mountainous landscape, one in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Falancai Fencai - The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 132; and another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, pl. 100. Compare also a vase with a continuous river and mountain landscape with a yellow-ground neck, sold in our London Rooms, 6 December 1993, lot 107.

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