YONGZHENG (1723-35)

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A PAIR OF VERY FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE JARS AND COVERS
YONGZHENG (1723-35)
Each of octagonal baluster form, finely enamelled in pastel tones and moulded with relief decoration, with a continuous scene on the sides extending across eight elongated ogival panels depicting a large bird perched on a gnarled prunus branch, squirrels amongst fruiting vine, a brightly coloured long-tailed bird on a magnolia branch, and various small mythical beasts on and amongst vases, archaistic vessels, jardinieres, bamboo shelving, a display cabinet, and a table screen enamelled with a mountainous landscape, with various flowers, fruit, and lingzhi embellishing the scene, the panels with relief-moulded pale green borders in imitation of bamboo, all reserved on a black ground with small dark green scrolls, contrasting white enamel bamboo and pink, yellow and white prunus branches, below a band of moulded raised petals at the shoulder alternately pink flowers on various pale blue sgraffiato-decorated grounds and white and blue enamel stork roundels on plain pink grounds, all over striated pink petals, similar petals around the foot, the neck with eight landscape vignettes decorated in dark sepia recessed from pink variously-patterned grounds and enclosed by moulded pale green bamboo borders, the domed covers with slightly flaring rims similarly decorated to the vases and surmounted by large well-modelled seated Buddhist lion finials, reserved in the biscuit with traces of gilding and cold-painted decoration, one cover with restoration
35 in. (89 cm.) high (2)

來源

Dr. J. H. Smidt van Gelder; Christie's London, 4 May 1970, lot 32. Anonymous sale; Jürg Stuker, Bern, 26 - 31 October 1989, lot 1088.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

The decoration on these magnificent jars is of extremely high quality and rather unusual. The painting within each panel has a major theme, which in itself is not unusual, but what is uncommon on these jars is that each panel follows pictorially from the previous one in a continuous scene. Thus the bamboo outlines for the panels appear almost like window frames through which the viewer observes a continuous, elaborate, garden scene. In addition, the landscape vignettes at the necks have been delicately painted in dark sepia enamel to resemble classical Chinese ink paintings; and the prunus blossom and bamboo on the lower part of the shoulders have been painted against a dark ground, as if they are seen illuminated by moonlight against a dark sky.

A pair of related Yongzheng jars of the same size from the A. E. Cumberbatch collection is illustrated by G. C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, London, 1927, plate LV; they were sold in these Rooms, 6 April, 1998, lot 134. Another pair, from the Cleveland Museum of Art, was sold in our New York Rooms, 18 September 2003, lot 388.