AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE ROSE CAFE-AU-LAIT-GROUND PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

SHEN DE TANG ZHI FOUR-CHARACTER HALL MARK IN IRON-RED, DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)

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AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE ROSE CAFE-AU-LAIT-GROUND PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
SHEN DE TANG ZHI FOUR-CHARACTER HALL MARK IN IRON-RED, DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)
Brightly enamelled with a dense allover pattern of stylized lotus blossoms amidst curling lotus stems and leaves below a band of ruyi heads encircling the mouth rim, all reserved on a soft, pale café-au-lait ground
11½ in. (29.1 cm.) high

Lot Essay

The mark may be translated as, 'Made for the Hall for the Cultivation of Virtue'.
Compare a Qianlong-marked carved white-glazed pear-shaped vase with an almost identical design from the Robert Chang Collection, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 2 November 1999, lot 285.

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