A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE VASES

20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE VASES
20TH CENTURY
Each is decorated on the cylindrical body with four figural panels surrounded by dense foliate scroll on a yellow ground separated by decorative borders from the similar scroll-decorated ground on the foot and on the waisted neck that is flanked by a pair of blue, openwork handles shaped as lingzhi stems. An apocryphal Qianlong mark in blue enamel within a double square is on the base.
11 in. (28 cm.) high

Provenance

Bonham's San Francisco, 29 September 2005, lot 4261.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.

Lot Essay

A similar ground and borders can be seen on a vase of twentieth-century date that also bears an apocryphal Qianlong mark in blue enamel, illustrated by G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, London, 1987, pp. 1445, no. 194. Like the present vases, the densely decorated yellow ground surrounds panels painted with figures and landscapes.

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