GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN GILT AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

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A PAIR OF GILT-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE-GROUND BOTTLE VASES
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN GILT AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Each globular body and waisted neck is decorated with gilt floral and animal medallions interspersed with shou characters, and the shoulder is encircled by a band of lotus scroll interspersed with further shou characters, with stylized lotus lappets encircling the foot and pendant ruyi-heads below the gilded rim.
15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in Italy in the 1950s, and thence by descent within the family.

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Lot Essay

For a similar gilt-decorated blue-ground Guangxu-period bottle vase, see National Museum of History: Major Holdings of the National Museum of History, Taipei, 1988, p. 72. Another example from the Kwan Collection was exhibited in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 13 August - 25 September 1983, p. 125, no. 126.

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