A VERY RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CYLINDRICAL JARS AND COVERS

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A VERY RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CYLINDRICAL JARS AND COVERS
IRON-RED QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each delicately painted around the body with the Eight Immortals holding their respective attributes and variously riding through waves on a lotus leaf, a peach, a branch, a crab, a donkey, a buffalo, a carp and a phoenix, amongst bats in flight, all between two bands of ruyi-lappets enriched with formal flower-scrolls on a deep pink sgraffiato-ground and two further narrow bands of blue key-pattern, the shallow domed covers similarly decorated with chrysanthemum knop finials, the interiors and bases turquoise (one cover restored and one rim with restored chip)--10 3/4in. (27.5cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A Jiaqing-marked covered jar of this form decorated in the same palette with The Eight Immortals standing before a very similarly painted sea between related lappets with flower scrolls reserved on a turquoise ground, in the Shanghai Museum, is illustrated in Chinese Art: The Complete Record, vol. 3, Yuan, Ming and Qing Ceramics, p. 190

Previously sold in these Rooms, 31 March 1992, lot 656

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