A RARE BEIJING ENAMEL 'RUBY LANDSCAPE' OCTAFOIL JAR
A RARE BEIJING ENAMEL 'RUBY LANDSCAPE' OCTAFOIL JAR

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A RARE BEIJING ENAMEL 'RUBY LANDSCAPE' OCTAFOIL JAR
QIANLONG BLUE ENAMEL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Of compressed globular form, decorated on the eight lobes with quatrefoil panels, each containing idyllic landscapes finely pencilled and stippled with ruby-red enamel, depicting fishermen on meandering rivers and rural dwellings with rocky mountains in the background, divided by floral scrolls on a bright yellow ground, set with a pair of animal-mask handles on shoulder and another pair of scroll handles attached to the gilt-metal lappet band encircling below the waisted neck enamelled with further lappets, repeated around the spreading foot, the interior with turquoise enamel
4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. a covered jar in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, decorated with four ruby-red landscape panels on yellow-ground floral scrolls, and additional blue-enamel landscapes on the shoulder, illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Taiwan, 1999, pl. 115. It is quite unusual to find ruby-enamelled landscapes as the main decoration on a piece, as they tend to appear as secondary motifs on several Beijing enamelwares, such as on the zhadou illustrated ibid., pl. 117; and on the covered bowl in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 202.

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