QIANLONG TWO-CHARACTER SEAL MARK WITHIN A RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Details

A SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK-LACQUERED VASE
QIANLONG TWO-CHARACTER SEAL MARK WITHIN A RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The baluster vase is with tapered sides that rise to a trumpet neck and flared rim. The metal body is decorated with mother-of-pearl and gold foils with spiral panels, all between lappet bands at the shoulder and around the base. The neck is decorated with floral scrolls, between decorative bands at the mouth rim and the base of the neck. The interior and recessed base both lacquered in black.
4 3/16 in. (10.7 cm.) high, cloth box

Provenance

Sold at Christie's London, 9 June 1975, lot 131
The Baoyizhai Collection
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, The Baoyizhai Collection of Chinese Lacquer- Part I, 8 April 2014, lot 53

Literature

Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, 1993, no. 98
Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Layered Beauty: The Baoyizhai Collection of Chinese Lacquer, 2010, no. 29

Exhibited

Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, 24 September – 21 November 1993
Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Layered Beauty: The Baoyizhai Collection of Chinese Lacquer, 20 November 2010- June 2011

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Lot Essay

Compare to a small black-lacquered mother-of-pearl-inlaid hexagonal box and cover, with similar decorations bearing a Qianlong seal mark but with four characters within a square, previously in the collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) and later sold at Christie’s New York, 18 March 2021, lot 676.

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