PETIT VASE EN BRONZE PARTIELLEMENT DORE ET SON SOCLE EN BRONZE

CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE A QUATRE CARACTERES INCISEE ET EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795) SOUS LE VASE ET MARQUE A SIX CARACTERES MOULEE ET EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795) SUR LE SOCLE

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PETIT VASE EN BRONZE PARTIELLEMENT DORE ET SON SOCLE EN BRONZE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE A QUATRE CARACTERES INCISEE ET EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795) SOUS LE VASE ET MARQUE A SIX CARACTERES MOULEE ET EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795) SUR LE SOCLE
The baluster vase is well cast around the body with a central broad band of leafy peony scroll above a band of pendent cicada blades and below a key-fret border. The shoulder is flanked by a pair of gilt-decorated phoenix handles.
7 in. (18 cm.) high overall

Provenance

From a European private collection.

Further details

A SMALL PARCEL-GILT-BRONZE 'PEONY AND PHOENIX' VASE AND ITS BRONZE STAND
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) UNDER THE VASE AND QIANLONG CAST SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) ON THE STAND

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Lot Essay

The present vase belongs to a group of Qianlong-marked miniature component vases, most of which are in the form of a double-vase, reflecting the emperor's interest in archaism. For examples of conjoined double-vases, see one also comprising a squat jar and a tall vase decorated with bats and clouds, attributed to the imperial workshops or made for the palace, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong Oriental Ceramics Society, 1986, p. 244, no. 236. Another from the W.W. Winkworth Collection, illustrated by S. Jenyns and W. Watson, Chinese Art: The Minor Arts, London, 1963, pl. 50, was sold at Christie's London, 16 November 1999, lot 106. A third one was sold at Christie's New York, 15 September 2009, lot 257.

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