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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A LARGE BLUE-GROUND GILT-DECORATED BALUSTER VASE
19TH CENTURY
Details
A LARGE BLUE-GROUND GILT-DECORATED BALUSTER VASE
19TH CENTURY
The body painted in gilding with large lotus sprays, the two central lotus blossoms with large stamens supporting a cluster of peach, pomegranate and finger citron comprising the sanduo and positited above a ruyi head suspending twin fish, the character ji and a chime, with applied mask and ring handles on either side of the vase above large lotus blossoms and an endless knot hung from a further ruyi head, all below a bowstring band and ruyi-head border interspersed with bats grasping endless knots in their mouths on the shoulder, the neck with similar lotus sprays between archaistic leaf-form lappets and small ruyi heads, the base with apocryphal Qianlong mark in underglaze blue
19¾ in. (50.2 cm.) high
19TH CENTURY
The body painted in gilding with large lotus sprays, the two central lotus blossoms with large stamens supporting a cluster of peach, pomegranate and finger citron comprising the sanduo and positited above a ruyi head suspending twin fish, the character ji and a chime, with applied mask and ring handles on either side of the vase above large lotus blossoms and an endless knot hung from a further ruyi head, all below a bowstring band and ruyi-head border interspersed with bats grasping endless knots in their mouths on the shoulder, the neck with similar lotus sprays between archaistic leaf-form lappets and small ruyi heads, the base with apocryphal Qianlong mark in underglaze blue
19¾ in. (50.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired in Japan in the 1960's.