A FINE AND VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'MILLEFLEURS' VASE

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A FINE AND VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'MILLEFLEURS' VASE
QIANLONG PERIOD, BLUE ENAMEL CAI XIU TANG ZHI MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE (1736-1795)

The small, slightly compressed pear-shaped body rising to a broad neck with lipped rim, exquisitely enamelled with a myriad blossoming flowers including peonies, lotus, carnations, aster, pinks, roses and daisies in rich tones of pink, yellow, blue and green, the base with a blue-enamelled four-character hallmark Cai Xiu Tang zhi within a double-square
4 1/4 in. (11 cm.) high, stand, box

拍品专文

The blue-enamelled hallmark, Cai Xiu Tang, is a dedication to the Hall of Colourful and Beautiful, dated to the Qianlong period.

No other example of this millefleurs vase appears to be recorded. The closest comparison is an equally fine cup of very similar pattern, bearing the same hallmark, from the Robert Chang Collection, sold in these Rooms, 31 October 2000, lot 811 (fig. 1).

Compare also with a dish of this pattern, but bearing a Yanghe Tang mark, 'Hall for Cultivating Harmony' in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Chugoku Toji zenshu, vol. 12, Kyoto, 1981, pl. 119; and to a pair of dishes with the same, Yanghe Tang, hallmark sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 Apri 2004, lot 232.