A CARVED RED LACQUER QUADRILOBED BALUSTER VASE

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A CARVED RED LACQUER QUADRILOBED BALUSTER VASE

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A CARVED RED LACQUER QUADRILOBED BALUSTER VASE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each of the broad sides carved with a scene of scholars and attendants in a landscape setting within a shaped panel, the narrow sides with panels of a bat suspending a ribbon-tied chime and twin-fish, all surrounded by foliate scroll, between bands of angular scroll, with a band of upright scroll-filled blades on the waisted neck above a narrow band of ruyi heads repeated on the spreading foot below further foliate scroll, with bands of key fret at the rims
14¾ in. (37.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Compare the red lacquer vase of this same unusual begonia form carved with similar figural scenes illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Carved Lacquer Ware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, pl. 32.

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