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1 avril 2014

A fine famille-rose drum-shaped armrest, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795)

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Lot 3053. A fine famille-rose drum-shaped armrest, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795); 20.7 cm., 8 1/8 in. Estimate 2,000,000 — 3,000,000 HKD. Lot sold 2,440,000 HKD  (229,706 EUR). Photo: Sotheby's.

well potted and hollowed out, the cylindrical body tapering slightly at the top and around the foot, brightly decorated around the sides with a frieze of large lotus blooms borne on leafy stems and reserved on a rich ruby ground finely incised with dense feathery scrolls, between two bands of triangular designs simulating drapes against lotus blooms on a ground of turquoise foliate scrolls, pierced at the apex in the form of a coin and decorated with lotus foliate scrolls on a bright yellow ground.

Provenance: Estate of Lady Valerie Finnis Scott (1924-2006).
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 11th April 2008, lot 2850.

Note: The decoration seen on the present armrest involved high technical ability combined with impeccable craftsmanship. A complicated and laborious technique was employed for the central body, where the design is reserved on a monochrome enamel ground, itself structured by needle-point etching of endless strolling fronds. This technique was developed under Tang Ying, superintendent at the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen during Qianlong's reign. A similar technique was used on a ruby-ground meiping decorated with related flower scroll design in famille-rose enamels in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 361, pl. 42.

Compare a slightly larger armrest of similar form but of slightly different decoration in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated ibid., pl. 48.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 April 2014

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