Lot Essay
Compare to a very similar shaped jar with European figures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and illustrated in Exhibition of Imperial Enamel Ware of Qing Dynasty, Taipei, 1979, pl. 139.
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QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Details
A SMALL PAINTED ENAMEL JAR, ZHADOU
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
3he jar is enamelled on the bombe shaped body with two cartouches in mirror image of a European lady and a gentleman in a garden, and surrounded by floral scrolls and arabesques on a bright turquoise ground. The trumpet neck is encircled by a ruyi band and upright plantain leaves below a link-chain border at the mouth rim. The interior is enamelled with pale blue.
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) high, box
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
3he jar is enamelled on the bombe shaped body with two cartouches in mirror image of a European lady and a gentleman in a garden, and surrounded by floral scrolls and arabesques on a bright turquoise ground. The trumpet neck is encircled by a ruyi band and upright plantain leaves below a link-chain border at the mouth rim. The interior is enamelled with pale blue.
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) high, box
Provenance
Sold at Christie's Paris, 15 June 2005, lot 425
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