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25 avril 2014

A rare Imperial coral-ground gilt-decorated double-gourd vase, Jiaqing seal mark and of the period

A rare Imperial coral-ground gilt-decorated double-gourd vase, Jiaqing seal mark and of the period

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Lot 85.A rare Imperial coral-ground gilt-decorated double-gourd vase, Jiaqing seal mark and of the period (1796-1820); 20.4cm (8in) high. Estimate £30,000 - 50,000 (€36,000 - 61,000). Sold for £ 170,500 (€ 190,709). Photo Bonhams.

The upper and lower sections of the vase with an even bright iron-red ground finely gilt on the lower section with four fully-blossoming lotus flowers alternating with four smaller lotus flower each beneath a bat suspending a Buddhist wan emblem, all amid foliate scrolls and beneath a band of bats alternating with ruyi head around the waist, the upper section similarly decorated with lotus flowers amid foliate scrolls, the base and interior of the neck glazed turquoise. 

Provenance: a European private collection, acquired in China by the great-grandfather of the present owner in the very early 20th century, and thence by descent within the family

Note: The design on the present vase harks back to the Jiajing period and to polychrome wares embellished with rich gold design known by their Japanese term Kinrande. The decoration of gold on coral-red ground was revived during the Qing Dynasty starting in the Kangxi period and reaching its height in the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods.

Compare a similarly decorated gold on a coral-red ground baluster-shaped vase, Jiaqing seal mark and period, illustrated by P.Y.K.Lam, ed., Ethereal Elegance: Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing, The Huaihaitang Collection, Hong Kong, 2007, pl.83, and a similarly decorated gold on a coral-ground jar and cover, Jaiqing seal mark and period, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and illustrated in Empty Vessels, Replenished Minds: The Culture, Practice and Art of Tea, Taipei, pl.174.

See also a turquoise-ground famille rose double-gourd vase, Jiaqing seal mark and period, of similar form and design, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, The Edward T. Chow Collection: Ming and Qing Porcelain, 25 November 1980, lot 173. A similar gilt on coral-red ground double-gourd vase, Jiaqing seal mark and period, previously in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, sold at Christie's Hong Kong on 29 April 2002, lot 574; and see also another example sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 April 2007, lot 509.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART. London, New Bond Street, 15 May 2014 

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