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A yellow-ground famille-rose 'elephant' handled vase, Mark and period of Tongzhi | 清同治 黃地粉彩百壽紋象耳瓶 《同治年製》款

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March 22, 08:01 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A yellow-ground famille-rose 'elephant' handled vase

Mark and period of Tongzhi

清同治 黃地粉彩百壽紋象耳瓶 《同治年製》款


the base with a four-character mark in iron red 


Height 14⅝ in., 37.2 cm

The pattern of repeated shou characters is a distinctive feature of Tongzhi period porcelain. Compare a yellow ground zhadou with blue-enamel characters in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in H.A. van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Lochem, 1977, pl. 54, alongside two other cups of similar pattern, pls 57 and 58. A large dish with the same pattern from the Qing Court Collection is included in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 434.