GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN GILDING AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

Details

A PAIR OF GILT-DECORATED BLUE-GROUND BOTTLE VASES
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN GILDING AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Both decorated with a pair of dragons confronted on a flaming pearl amidst flames and clouds, between a band of waves at the base and a band of tightly scrolled foliage incorporating large blossoms and shou characters at the shoulder, the neck with a further dragon and pearl below a ruyi band, all in gilt against a deep blue ground
14½ in. (36.8 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Eugene O. Perkins Collection; Christie's, New York, 2 June 1989, lot 86.

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Lot Essay

A similar pair of vases with Guangxu marks was sold in these rooms, 20 March 2001, lot 248.
Compare, also, a vase of the same shape with a Guangxu mark, but with gilt decoration on a mirror-black ground, from the National Palace Museum, illustrated by van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, The Netherlands, 1977, pl. 93.

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