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Lot Essay
Previously sold in these Rooms, 30 October 1995, lot 736A.
No other Qianlong-period vase of this pattern appears to have been published, although its Yongzheng prototype was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 April 2003, lot 170.
The present vase is an excellent example of the effect that could be created by using the intaglio form of decoration on a monochrome porcelain vessel. The technique allows the details of the elaborate crisp decoration around the body to be highlighted by the thin translucent glaze pooling in the deeper recesses to provide a contrast of colour tone, thereby creating two shades of green, while accentuating the dense archaistic design on the body and neck.
Cf. another very fine Qianlong-marked celadon-glazed double-gourd vase decorated in the same way, included in the Christie's London Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 1993, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 71.
No other Qianlong-period vase of this pattern appears to have been published, although its Yongzheng prototype was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 April 2003, lot 170.
The present vase is an excellent example of the effect that could be created by using the intaglio form of decoration on a monochrome porcelain vessel. The technique allows the details of the elaborate crisp decoration around the body to be highlighted by the thin translucent glaze pooling in the deeper recesses to provide a contrast of colour tone, thereby creating two shades of green, while accentuating the dense archaistic design on the body and neck.
Cf. another very fine Qianlong-marked celadon-glazed double-gourd vase decorated in the same way, included in the Christie's London Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 1993, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 71.