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Lot Essay
The poem inscribed on the present vase was composed by the Qianlong Emperor and published in Qinggaozong Yuzhi Shiwen Quanji – Yuzhishi Chuji , Vol.11, 1976, Taipei, p.546.
It may be translated as :
Guan and Ru wares are famed antiques;
This newly made vase is of even finer quality.
It stays by me to stir poetic verse, as I pick blossoms along the road.
Hung on a light palanquin, it holds wild flowers perfectly.
Kept far from the dust and noise, its delicate fragrance drifts through the curtained gauze.
In the 11th month of the Qianlong 7th year (1742), Tang Ying submitted a memorial to the Emperor, stating: ‘ there are various models of wall vase, I have respectfully inscribed the imperial poems onto the vases; the characters are rendered in four different scripts, matched to the vase forms…… six pairs have been made first and are presented for your inspection…” According to the inscription, the present vase is presumably one of the vases mentioned by Tang Ying, produced in the 7th year of the Qianlong reign . Several inscribed wall vases still remain on the east wall of the front room in the Hall of Three Rarities, and one can well imagine the leisurely times Emperor Qianlong took in admiring them.
Compare to a slightly larger yangcai wall vase with the same poem inscribed on the body, illustrated in Stunning Decorative Porcelains from the Ch’ien-lung Reign, Taipei, 2008, no. 20; one in the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, exhibited in the Nan Xun Zhi Yin- Imperial Poems from the Qing Court in the Collection of the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum in 2025; and one from the British Museum, collection number: PDF A807.
It may be translated as :
Guan and Ru wares are famed antiques;
This newly made vase is of even finer quality.
It stays by me to stir poetic verse, as I pick blossoms along the road.
Hung on a light palanquin, it holds wild flowers perfectly.
Kept far from the dust and noise, its delicate fragrance drifts through the curtained gauze.
In the 11th month of the Qianlong 7th year (1742), Tang Ying submitted a memorial to the Emperor, stating: ‘ there are various models of wall vase, I have respectfully inscribed the imperial poems onto the vases; the characters are rendered in four different scripts, matched to the vase forms…… six pairs have been made first and are presented for your inspection…” According to the inscription, the present vase is presumably one of the vases mentioned by Tang Ying, produced in the 7th year of the Qianlong reign . Several inscribed wall vases still remain on the east wall of the front room in the Hall of Three Rarities, and one can well imagine the leisurely times Emperor Qianlong took in admiring them.
Compare to a slightly larger yangcai wall vase with the same poem inscribed on the body, illustrated in Stunning Decorative Porcelains from the Ch’ien-lung Reign, Taipei, 2008, no. 20; one in the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, exhibited in the Nan Xun Zhi Yin- Imperial Poems from the Qing Court in the Collection of the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum in 2025; and one from the British Museum, collection number: PDF A807.