GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

Details

A FAMILLE ROSE 'BUTTERFLY' VASE
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Finely enamelled with butterflies within decorative borders and with a band of lotus and shou characters on the shoulder
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high

Provenance

Private Chinese collection, acquired prior to 1949.

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Lot Essay

Similar Guangxu-marked vases are illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1983, p.133, no. 140; by G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, London, 1987, p. 91, no. 126; and by H.A. Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, the Netherlands, 1977, pl. 104. Compare, also, to one sold in these rooms, 19 September 2007, lot 430.

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