A MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE-ROSE STANDS AND TROMPE L'OEIL PERSIMMONS AND POMEGRANATES QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD each stand of slender proportion, sturdily potted on a rounded stepped foot rising to a shapely statuesque profile, centred with a bulbous central section between elaborate contours flaring out and curving inward, all below a wide double-lotus bordered top meticulously painted with striated lotus petals, the stand decorated in the yangcai palette with bands of floral designs arranged in registers, the bands of varying widths enclosing multi-coloured floral blooms rendered borne on curling foliage, interspersed with borders of dotted motifs and scrollwork, one stand supporting a neatly arranged pyramidal pile of eleven trompe l'oeil persimmons, each rendered lusciously fleshy and ripe with four main reddish-orange glazed 'cheeks', detailed at the top with a variegated beige calyx, the other a similarly modelled pile of eleven trompe l'oeil pomegranates, each plump fruit rendered lifelike and decorated with a pale peach glaze with areas of rosy speckles and depicted succulent with its skin bursting open revealing dense clusters of ruby-red seeds 47.5 and 47.8 cm, 18 5/8 and 18 3/4 in.
A MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE-ROSE STANDS AND TROMPE L'OEIL PERSIMMONS AND POMEGRANATES QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD each stand of slender proportion, sturdily potted on a rounded stepped foot rising to a shapely statuesque profile, centred with a bulbous central section between elaborate contours flaring out and curving inward, all below a wide double-lotus bordered top meticulously painted with striated lotus petals, the stand decorated in the yangcai palette with bands of floral designs arranged in registers, the bands of varying widths enclosing multi-coloured floral blooms rendered borne on curling foliage, interspersed with borders of dotted motifs and scrollwork, one stand supporting a neatly arranged pyramidal pile of eleven trompe l'oeil persimmons, each rendered lusciously fleshy and ripe with four main reddish-orange glazed 'cheeks', detailed at the top with a variegated beige calyx, the other a similarly modelled pile of eleven trompe l'oeil pomegranates, each plump fruit rendered lifelike and decorated with a pale peach glaze with areas of rosy speckles and depicted succulent with its skin bursting open revealing dense clusters of ruby-red seeds 47.5 and 47.8 cm, 18 5/8 and 18 3/4 in.
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