A RARE LARGE CARVED RED LACQUER PEAR-SHAPED VASE, HU
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
A RARE LARGE CARVED RED LACQUER PEAR-SHAPED VASE, HU QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Each side of the robust body carved in high relief with two ovoid panels depicting a gathering of scholars in a mountainous retreat, on one side two are seen playing weiqi while others converse in an open pavilion, and on the reverse several study a scroll painting, within petal borders reserved on a dense ground of foliate scroll interspersed with bats and archaistic dragon scrolls, all between bands of stylized cicadas at the mouth rim and just above further foliate scroll on the foot, the handles in the form of foliate scroll dragons 18½ in. (47 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
A RARE LARGE CARVED RED LACQUER PEAR-SHAPED VASE, HU
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
A RARE LARGE CARVED RED LACQUER PEAR-SHAPED VASE, HU QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Each side of the robust body carved in high relief with two ovoid panels depicting a gathering of scholars in a mountainous retreat, on one side two are seen playing weiqi while others converse in an open pavilion, and on the reverse several study a scroll painting, within petal borders reserved on a dense ground of foliate scroll interspersed with bats and archaistic dragon scrolls, all between bands of stylized cicadas at the mouth rim and just above further foliate scroll on the foot, the handles in the form of foliate scroll dragons 18½ in. (47 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
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