A RARE FAMILLE ROSE AND GILT-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE AND GILT-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The bulbous body painted with three famille rose roundels, each depicting two boys at play, dressed in a variety of colorful robes, and shown on garden terraces with plantain, lotus and rockwork, variously chasing a butterfly, fishing for carp in a fish bowl, and possibly playing with crickets, on a ground painted in underglaze blue and gilt with stylised lotus and foliage between lappets and further flowerheads at the spreading foot and a cloud collar at the shoulder, the neck with tall upright lappets below a cloud collar and flowerheads at the rim, the interior and base glazed turquoise
71/4in. (18.4cm.) high

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc, III

Further details

See illustration of two views

Lot Essay

For very similar painting of boys see the jar with Qianlong mark illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 341, no. 22. For another Qianlong-marked, pear-shaped vase decorated with similar decorative bands, including underglaze blue lappets on the neck, and with boys at play, in a frieze rather than in roundels, see op. cit., p. 387, no. 68