清嘉慶 黃地粉彩「纏枝花卉」圖蓋罐 《大清嘉慶年製》款

of cylindrical form with slightly rounded sides rising from a nearly splayed foot to a gently flared rim, finely decorated around the exterior in bright enamels against a rich lemon-yellow ground with four stylised blossoms enclosed in barbed cartouches of interlocked iron-red and gilt ruyi heads, interspersed with two varieties of pink lotus between and above and exotic lilies below, all wreathed in curling multi-coloured foliage with attendant iron-red buds between bands of turquoise-ground ruyi at the shoulder and base, the mouthrim picked out with florets on a light blue ground and repeated on a pink ground around the footring, the domed cover similarly decorated with pink lotus on yellow and set with a bud knop picked out with orange petals, the interior and base enamelled in pale turquoise, the base further inscribed in iron-red with a six-character seal mark within a square panel reserved in white

There is some very minor rubbing in areas to the iron-red enamel and to the gilding around the footrim, but overall the vase and cover are in very good condition with well preserved enamels.
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The present jar is unusual for its design, particularly the interlinked ruyi motif. This motif is reminiscent of a Qianlong design which featured ruyi-inspired strapwork similarly rendered in iron-red and outlined in gilt paint; see a yellow-ground vase in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum’s exhibition Stunning Porcelains from the Ch’ien-lung Reign, Taipei, 2008, cat. no. 32; and a creamy-yellow ground double gourd vase, from the Fonthill Heirlooms and the collections of Lord Margadale of Islay, Alfred Morrison and J.T. Tai, sold at Christie’s London, 18^th October 1971, lot 74, and again in these rooms, 7^th October 2010, lot 2126.