Lot 156

FINE FAMILLE ROSE GILT-DECORATED FLAMBÉ-GROUND VASE, HU
QIANLONG MARK BUT REPUBLIC PERIOD




Auction: 8 November 2016 at 17:00 GMT
£20,000
Description
moulded with a flared neck above a bulbous pear-form body, the neck applied with serpentine handles with ruyi-heads suspending a rope with wanzi character and fish and chime pendants, the body decorated with two circular panels enclosing landscape scenes, all reserved above a flambé-ground with gilt archaistic motifs, the base with an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark
Dimensions
30cm high
Footnote
Note:
For a very similar Hu vase, see Bonham's sale in their San Francisco rooms on 24th June 2014, lot 8326.



