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Auction archive: Lot number 106

A PAIR OF VERY FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE JARS AND COVERS

Auction 08.11.2005
8 Nov 2005
Estimate
£100,000 - £150,000
ca. US$173,496 - US$260,245
Price realised:
£120,000
ca. US$208,196
Auction archive: Lot number 106

A PAIR OF VERY FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE JARS AND COVERS

Auction 08.11.2005
8 Nov 2005
Estimate
£100,000 - £150,000
ca. US$173,496 - US$260,245
Price realised:
£120,000
ca. US$208,196
Beschreibung:

A PAIR OF VERY FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE JARS AND COVERS YONGZHENG (1723-35) Each of octagonal baluster form, finely enamelled in pastel tones and moulded with relief decoration, with a continuous scene on the sides extending across eight elongated ogival panels depicting a large bird perched on a gnarled prunus branch, squirrels amongst fruiting vine, a brightly coloured long-tailed bird on a magnolia branch, and various small mythical beasts on and amongst vases, archaistic vessels, jardinieres, bamboo shelving, a display cabinet, and a table screen enamelled with a mountainous landscape, with various flowers, fruit, and lingzhi embellishing the scene, the panels with relief-moulded pale green borders in imitation of bamboo, all reserved on a black ground with small dark green scrolls, contrasting white enamel bamboo and pink, yellow and white prunus branches, below a band of moulded raised petals at the shoulder alternately pink flowers on various pale blue sgraffiato -decorated grounds and white and blue enamel stork roundels on plain pink grounds, all over striated pink petals, similar petals around the foot, the neck with eight landscape vignettes decorated in dark sepia recessed from pink variously-patterned grounds and enclosed by moulded pale green bamboo borders, the domed covers with slightly flaring rims similarly decorated to the vases and surmounted by large well-modelled seated Buddhist lion finials, reserved in the biscuit with traces of gilding and cold-painted decoration, one cover with restoration 35 in. (89 cm.) high (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 106
Auction:
Datum:
8 Nov 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

A PAIR OF VERY FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE JARS AND COVERS YONGZHENG (1723-35) Each of octagonal baluster form, finely enamelled in pastel tones and moulded with relief decoration, with a continuous scene on the sides extending across eight elongated ogival panels depicting a large bird perched on a gnarled prunus branch, squirrels amongst fruiting vine, a brightly coloured long-tailed bird on a magnolia branch, and various small mythical beasts on and amongst vases, archaistic vessels, jardinieres, bamboo shelving, a display cabinet, and a table screen enamelled with a mountainous landscape, with various flowers, fruit, and lingzhi embellishing the scene, the panels with relief-moulded pale green borders in imitation of bamboo, all reserved on a black ground with small dark green scrolls, contrasting white enamel bamboo and pink, yellow and white prunus branches, below a band of moulded raised petals at the shoulder alternately pink flowers on various pale blue sgraffiato -decorated grounds and white and blue enamel stork roundels on plain pink grounds, all over striated pink petals, similar petals around the foot, the neck with eight landscape vignettes decorated in dark sepia recessed from pink variously-patterned grounds and enclosed by moulded pale green bamboo borders, the domed covers with slightly flaring rims similarly decorated to the vases and surmounted by large well-modelled seated Buddhist lion finials, reserved in the biscuit with traces of gilding and cold-painted decoration, one cover with restoration 35 in. (89 cm.) high (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 106
Auction:
Datum:
8 Nov 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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