清乾隆 松綠地粉彩纏枝蓮紋八吉祥雙螭龍耳瓶 《大清乾隆年製》款

la panse ovoïde à l'épaulement brisé se prolongeant vers un haut col cintré flanqué de deux chilong grimpant verticalement vers le bord, vivement émaillé sur fond turquoise des Huit Symboles Bouddhistes parmi des rinceaux feuillagés chargés de lotus épanouis, le col peint de rinceaux et de chauves-souris en vol retenant dans leur gueule une double-pièce auspicieuse enveloppée dans un ruban flottant, l'intérieur et la base emaillés turquoise, marque en cachet à six caractères incisée et peinte à l'or à la base, percé et cassé

The vase was previously mounted as a lamp and the base of the vase was drilled to the right hand side of the mark with a ca. 8x4cm large associated area of loss the the porcelain around the hole. There are at least two hairline cracks visible extending from edge of the drilled hole into the base (two partially visible underneath the yellow mass). The turquoise-glazed base and incised mark were covered with some form of yellowish mass. There is a ca. 16.5x5.5cm large V-shaped part of the rim and neck is missing. A ca. 10cm long hairline crack extends from the tip of the V into the neck. There is also a ca. 19cm long hairline crack extending from the rim into the neck. The surface was/is covered with thick yellowish dirt (nicotine over a long time). There is some minor wear to the thick turquoise glaze, enamels and gilding. The colours are vibrant, the gilding rich, the vase impressive in size and design.
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The vibrantly coloured and thickly applied enamels against a bright turquoise blue ground outlined in thick gold lines on this vase recall the characteristics of cloisonné enamelled metalwork. While a number of smaller vases of this category are known, few are of similarly large size are known, all sharing the same incised and gilt six-character Qianlong seal mark to the base. Compare a related larger vase formerly in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille-Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 119. Another vase of this type from the J.T. Tai Collection, was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 7th October 2010, lot 2132.