Lot Essay
It is very rare to find a garden seat with this combination of grisaille landscape painting and elaborate famille-rose borders.
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YONGZHENG (1723-1735)
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A RARE SMALL FAMILLE ROSE BARREL-SHAPED GARDEN SEAT
Yongzheng (1723-1735)
Decorated around the sides in painterly style imitating an ink landscape handscroll, en grisaille and sepia with figures, pavilions and retreats nestling amongst rocky outcrops on the banks of a lake with mountains in the background, all below ruyi-shaped lappets of cranes in flight amongst peony and peach sprays on a seeded ground extending over the upper surface around a pierced cash design on the top, a band of floral turquoise-ground petal-shaped lappets around the foot, hairline
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high
Yongzheng (1723-1735)
Decorated around the sides in painterly style imitating an ink landscape handscroll, en grisaille and sepia with figures, pavilions and retreats nestling amongst rocky outcrops on the banks of a lake with mountains in the background, all below ruyi-shaped lappets of cranes in flight amongst peony and peach sprays on a seeded ground extending over the upper surface around a pierced cash design on the top, a band of floral turquoise-ground petal-shaped lappets around the foot, hairline
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high
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