A VERY RARE DOCUMENTARY FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASE

The Jiangxi Porcelain Company was known to have been established in 1910 and carried on into the early years of the Republic. The inscription on the vase, however, clearly dates this to the Qing dynasty and therefore makes this piece an important stylistic reference point in dating porcelain of the late Qing and early Republic periods as noted by S. Kwan in the introduction to the 1983 University of Hong Kong exhibition catalogue of Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, p. 33.