QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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AN UNUSUAL COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE BULB-MOUTHED VASE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The globular body is painted in rich, deep tones of underglaze blue and crushed strawberry red with three buddhistic lions playing with ribbon-tied brocade balls amid flames and below foliate scroll between bow-string borders on the shoulder. Three further bow-string borders on the neck separate bands of inverted leaves, lingzhi meander, flower sprays, and the tall bulb-shaped mouth painted around the sides with blue petals. The base is replaced.
14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1971.

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Lot Essay

A very similar vase, of smaller size (26.6 cm.), with a Qianlong seal mark, is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain: The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, vol. I, pl. 113, and vol. II, pp. 155-57. A similar vase, of larger size (39.4 cm.), also with a Qianlong mark, in the Shanghai Museum, is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, Shanghai Museum, 1987, no. 126. See, also, the larger vase (38.5 cm.) which is more similar stylistically to the Shanghai Museum example than the present and Tianminlou vases sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 2 November 1999, lot 601.

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