A RARE FAMILLE ROSE-DECORATED MIRROR-BLACK-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE

18TH CENTURY

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE-DECORATED MIRROR-BLACK-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
18TH CENTURY
The body and neck are subtly divided into eight vertical lobes highlighted by gilt lines. The neck is flanked by a pair of handles formed by vines bearing three gourds in high relief amidst the leafy tendrils that trail down onto the shoulder, all against the lustrous black ground. The interior of the neck and base are white.
23¾ in. (60.3 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Only one other similar vase, of smaller size (17¾ in.), appears to have been published. It was sold at Christie's New York, 16-17 September 2010, lot 1488. These two rare vases share a certain affinity with the eccentric Qianlong-marked vessels decorated around the shoulders or rims with fruits, flowers, clambering boys, or dragons modeled in extremely high relief and painted in bright famille rose enamels. For a Qianlong-marked vase decorated around the neck with peaches and lingzhi fungus modeled in high relief, see Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 363, no. 44.

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