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A rare large famille-rose 'Scholars' vase Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period | 清雍正 墨彩香山九老圖折肩盤口瓶
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June 10, 03:15 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
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Description
A rare large famille-rose 'Scholars' vase
Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period
of baluster form, with a tall splayed foot and everted galleried rim, finely painted on the white ground with five scholars inspecting a scroll, dressed in ample white robes hemmed with a black border, one carrying a gnarled staff, the neck with two similarly dressed scholars standing with an attendant near an archaic vase containing further scrolls
43.8 cm, 17¼ in.
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Rare grand vase baluster à décor de lettrés, dynastie Qing, époque Yongzheng
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清雍正 墨彩香山九老圖折肩盤口瓶
43.8 公分， 17¼英寸
Formerly in an English private collection, Norfolk, UK.
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英國私人舊藏
The decoration on this vase illustrates the story of the Bai Juyi, the nine scholars of Xiangshan. Two of them are traditionally absent from the group, having not yet reached the venerable age of ninety years old. Compare a brush pot painted in grisaille dating from the Yongzheng reign, from the J.M. Hu collection, illustrated in Selected Ceramics from the collection of Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Hu, Shanghai Museum 1989, no. 50, pp. 84-85.