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Lot Essay
Previously sold in our London Rooms, 17 June 1985, lot 482.
The lotus bloom design on the present vase is closely related to the pointed petal examples found on cloisonné enamels. Judging from the decorative style with its detailed, gilded outline, finely tracing the different motifs and the choice of the turquoise enamel, it is evidently an attempt to emulate a design on metalwork of cloisonné enamel on copper. Compare the flowers and gilt reign mark on a similar vase, illustrated in Falangcai Fencai, Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 136, no. 119. The decorative elements of both the present vase and the Beijing example are sparse, unlike the densely painted motifs on a pair of turquoise-ground double-gourd vases, from the Manno Art Museum, sold in our London Rooms, 21 June 2001, lot 105.
The lotus bloom design on the present vase is closely related to the pointed petal examples found on cloisonné enamels. Judging from the decorative style with its detailed, gilded outline, finely tracing the different motifs and the choice of the turquoise enamel, it is evidently an attempt to emulate a design on metalwork of cloisonné enamel on copper. Compare the flowers and gilt reign mark on a similar vase, illustrated in Falangcai Fencai, Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 136, no. 119. The decorative elements of both the present vase and the Beijing example are sparse, unlike the densely painted motifs on a pair of turquoise-ground double-gourd vases, from the Manno Art Museum, sold in our London Rooms, 21 June 2001, lot 105.