A MASSIVE CELADON-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE VASE QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

heavily potted with the pear-shaped body rising to a wide slightly tapering neck, decorated in iron-red and gilding over light moulding with the bajixiang on a ground of white slip thickly applied and incised with bats in flight through swirling clouds, scattered overall with 'ball flowers' and flower sprigs in bright opaque enamels, all on a pale-blue celadon ground, a band of pink-ground upright lappets around the base, the short foot encircled by flower sprigs, the rim with an iron-red and gilt spearhead and scroll collar

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2nd May 1995, lot 151.

The overall condition is very good. The enamels is are almost all intact with only little wear to the gilding.
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Two Qianlong vases of this pattern in the Royal Collections at Buckingham Palace with early ninteenth century gilt-bronze mounts are illustrated by Scheurleer, Chinesisches and japanisches Porzellan in europaischen Fassungen, pl.527, with mounts by B. Vulliany, and pl.530, with mounts dated c.1823.