JIAQING IRON-RED SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

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AN EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE JARS AND COVERS
JIAQING IRON-RED SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
Each of the ovoid bodies decorated with a large lotus blooms surrounded by beribboned anbaxiang, the Eight Daoist emblems amidst wispy cloud scrolls and smaller lotus blooms, all against a yellow-ground, the shoulders flanked by elephant-head handles, the short neck with band of overlapping ruyi-heads, beneath blue-enamelled classic scrolls around the mouth rim, the domed cover similarly enamelled with lotus blooms, surmounted by a lotus-bud finial, the interior and base with turquoise enamel
9 1/2 in. (24 cm.) high, boxes (2)

Provenance

General Sir Walter Fane, Clovelly, 1884
Mrs Walter Fane
William V.R. Fane, 1912
Previously sold at Sotheby's London, 13 November 2002, lot 155

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Lot Essay

The inventory labels on the bases of these vases indicate that the vases belonged to General Sir Walter Fane (1828-1885) who was a distinguished career army officer. As the commanding captain, Fane was the commander of the XIXth Bengal Cavalry at the seige of the Summer Palace in 1860.

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