A LARGE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND COPPER-RED LANTERN VASE QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG / QIANLONG PERIOD painted with the Three Star Gods rendered in typical fashion with the God of Rank and Affluence, Luxing, standing on the left and holding a boy, symbolising the wish for healthy children; Fuxing, the God of Happiness and Wealth towering centrally, characteristically painted as a head taller than the rest and wearing a plaque that reads 'imperial favour bestowed from the emperor' (qinci); and the God of Longevity, Shoulao, holding a gnarled staff and identified by his large forehead and cloak of shou characters, with boys holding respectively peach, lingzhi, prunus, chrysanthemum and pomegranate, amongst a deer and two cranes standing beneath a pine tree with gnarled trunk, the flared mouth and splayed foot with bands of flower heads and ruyi 46.2CM., 18 1/8 IN.
A LARGE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND COPPER-RED LANTERN VASE QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG / QIANLONG PERIOD painted with the Three Star Gods rendered in typical fashion with the God of Rank and Affluence, Luxing, standing on the left and holding a boy, symbolising the wish for healthy children; Fuxing, the God of Happiness and Wealth towering centrally, characteristically painted as a head taller than the rest and wearing a plaque that reads 'imperial favour bestowed from the emperor' (qinci); and the God of Longevity, Shoulao, holding a gnarled staff and identified by his large forehead and cloak of shou characters, with boys holding respectively peach, lingzhi, prunus, chrysanthemum and pomegranate, amongst a deer and two cranes standing beneath a pine tree with gnarled trunk, the flared mouth and splayed foot with bands of flower heads and ruyi 46.2CM., 18 1/8 IN.
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