Lot 89
RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'PEONY' GARLIC-MOUTH VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Auction: 9 May 2017 at 16:00 BST
£2,500
Description
rising from an unglazed footrim to a tall foot with ruyi head border, supporting a bulbous body and a tall neck with garlic-bulb mouth painted in enamels with repeating peony heads, radiating stems bearing lotus blossoms with incised leafs proliferating the body
Dimensions
36.5cm high
Footnote
Note:
For a similar vase, however in the shape of a moon flask, see Sotheby's sale in their New York rooms on 15th-16th September 2015, lot 297. Literature: see Leigh Ashton and Basil Gray, Chinese Art, London, 1935, pl. 135 and Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain: The Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1912), London, 1959, pl. XC, fig. 1.