A FINE FAMILLE ROSE 'BUTTERFLY' VASE

GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

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A FINE FAMILLE ROSE 'BUTTERFLY' VASE
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Finely painted in bright, pastel enamels around the neck and body with colorful butterflies of different patterns and in different attitudes, scattered evenly around the surface, the shoulder with a band of lotus scroll interrupted by xi characters, all between a pendent ruyi band around the neck and upright lappets around the base
15 5/8 in. (39.6 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Similar Guangxu-marked vases are illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1983, p.133, no. 140; by G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, London, 1987, p. 91, no. 126; and by H.A. Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, the Netherlands, 1977, pl. 104.

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