A MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE FAMILLE-ROSE RETICULATED VASE SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG superbly potted with a pear-shaped body rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck and flared rim, the exterior of the revolving body delicately painted in shaded pastel tones of pink, yellow, green and blue with lotus blooms and buds issuing from scrolling foliage with undulating vines and tendrils, all reserved on a white ground, the bulging body reticulated with four medallions, each enclosing a luscious garden scene denoting the cycle of four seasons and detailed with an iron-red balustrade, one panel with pale pink and yellow peonies borne on gnarled branches emerging from jagged rockwork symbolising spring, another with fruiting and flowering pomegranates evoking summer, another with cotton rose hibiscus blossoms representing autumn, the other with a gnarled prunus tree issuing yellow and pink blossoms standing for winter, the waisted neck flanked by a pair of elephant-head handles, below a band of stylised trefoil motifs and a border of trefoil petal lappets encircling the rim, all above an upright yellow lappet border enclosing pink small florets, the splayed foot decorated with a pendent plantain lappet border reserved against a pink ground, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark 40.5 cm., 15 7/8 in.
A MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE FAMILLE-ROSE RETICULATED VASE SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG superbly potted with a pear-shaped body rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck and flared rim, the exterior of the revolving body delicately painted in shaded pastel tones of pink, yellow, green and blue with lotus blooms and buds issuing from scrolling foliage with undulating vines and tendrils, all reserved on a white ground, the bulging body reticulated with four medallions, each enclosing a luscious garden scene denoting the cycle of four seasons and detailed with an iron-red balustrade, one panel with pale pink and yellow peonies borne on gnarled branches emerging from jagged rockwork symbolising spring, another with fruiting and flowering pomegranates evoking summer, another with cotton rose hibiscus blossoms representing autumn, the other with a gnarled prunus tree issuing yellow and pink blossoms standing for winter, the waisted neck flanked by a pair of elephant-head handles, below a band of stylised trefoil motifs and a border of trefoil petal lappets encircling the rim, all above an upright yellow lappet border enclosing pink small florets, the splayed foot decorated with a pendent plantain lappet border reserved against a pink ground, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark 40.5 cm., 15 7/8 in.
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