Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, London, 5 November 2019
6 novembre 2019
A pair of massive and superbly-decorated famille rose baluster jars and covers, Yongzheng period (1723-1735)
Lot 180. A pair of massive and superbly-decorated famille rose baluster jars and covers, Yongzheng period (1723-1735); 30 ¾ in. (78.5 cm.) high. Estimate GBP 120,000 - GBP 180,000. Price realised GBP 150,000. © Christie's Images
Each jar is finely decorated in bright enamels with elaborately dressed and coiffured equestriennes riding through a garden with a trellis covered in flowering plants to one side, with two scholars and an attendent at leisure in a gazebo, all below a ruyi-shaped border decorated with a peony floral pattern, the conforming covers further decorated with a figural hunting scene and surmounted by a bud-shaped finial. The bases are unglazed.
Provenance: Private European collection, amassed in the 1950s.
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