A RARE GILT-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND DOUBLE-GOURD VASE

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A RARE GILT-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
IRON-RED JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND PERIOD (1796-1820)

Finely gilded against an orangey-red ground, the lower spherical body with four scrolling lotus roundels, each designed with a wan character at the centre and radiating leafy vines to the sides, incorporating a stylised shou character below a bat descending from the rim, divided by lotus spray spandrels, the waisted neck decorated with a scroll band above a band of ruyi-heads on the shoulder, all below a similarly decorated smaller upper section, the concave base in turquoise enamel reserving the reign mark in iron-red
11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm.) high

來源

Formerly in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, inventory no. 30.632.

拍品專文

A gourd-shaped vase with nearly identical decoration rendered in gilt but against a blue ground, was included in the exhibition, Nineteenth Century Mark and Period Porcelain, Messrs S. Marchant and Son, London, p. 13, no. 1. A related Qianlong-marked iron-red double-gourd vase, from the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, Japan, 1981, no. 123; the Shanghai Museum example is raised on a splayed ring foot but the gilded design is closely related to the present vase.

Compare also with a pair of Jiaqing-marked double-gourd vases of this same pattern decorated in the famille rose palette from the Manno Collection, sold in our London Rooms, 21 June 2001, lot 105.