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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN COLLECTION
A PAIR OF GRISAILLE-DECORATED BLACK-GROUND VASES
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Details
A PAIR OF GRISAILLE-DECORATED BLACK-GROUND VASES
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Each vase is decorated en grisaille with a central figure of a bearded foreigner on horseback, surrounded by attendants holding branches of white-enameled prunus blossoms, with small details picked out in red enamel, all amidst a landscape and beneath scrolling clouds, above two decorative borders of alternating black and yellow enamels at the foot, and below a border of dragons, with backbones highlighted in yellow enamel on the shoulder below the similarly decorated neck.
15¼ in. (38.6 cm.) high
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Each vase is decorated en grisaille with a central figure of a bearded foreigner on horseback, surrounded by attendants holding branches of white-enameled prunus blossoms, with small details picked out in red enamel, all amidst a landscape and beneath scrolling clouds, above two decorative borders of alternating black and yellow enamels at the foot, and below a border of dragons, with backbones highlighted in yellow enamel on the shoulder below the similarly decorated neck.
15¼ in. (38.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired in the United States prior to 1970.
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