XIANFENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1851-1861)

This vase is enamelled on the body with two clusters of flowering chrysanthemum, peony and magnolia, above bands of key-fret border and floral scrolls reserved on a violet-blue ground at the foot, the neck is similarly decorated and flanked by ruyi handles.

While no other Xianfeng vases of this pattern is published, compare a Daoguang vase of identical floral decoration, housed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains with cloisonné enamel decoration and famille rose decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 218, no.193 (fig. 1).