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A RARE FACETTED FAMILLE-ROSE 清嘉慶 綠地粉彩開光四季花卉紋半方轎瓶
‘FLORAL’ WALL VASE 《大清嘉慶年製》款
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF
JIAQING

well modelled with a triangular body rising
from a slightly splayed foot to a flared rim of
corresponding section, the body decorated
with two rectangular cartouches, each framing
a scene of floral blooms, one decorated with a
pond with lotus blooms and large lotus leaves
borne on long stems, the other with various
flowers, including large peonies, issuing from
thin leafy stems, the scene further depicted with
jagged rockwork, all bordered by floral scrolls
against a lime-green ground, all between white-
ground bands of lotus blooms picked out in puce
along the rim and foot, the reverse of the vessel
covered with a lime-green glaze and pierced with
three connected apertures, the interior and base
enamelled turquoise, the latter with a horizontal
iron-red six-character seal mark within a white
cartouche
19.1 cm, 7½ in.

HK$ 1,000,000-1,500,000
US$ 128,000-192,000

Modelled as a segmented cong vase, this vase period wall vase painted with floral cartouches,
was probably made at the beginning of the in the Huaihaitang collection, included in the
Jiaqing reign, when the Qianlong Emperor’s exhibition Ethereal Elegance. Porcelain Vases
eclectic taste continued to exert much influence of the Imperial Qing, Art Museum, The Chinese
in the productions of imperial artefacts. A further University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2007, cat.
characteristic of the Qianlong style is evident no. 130, together with another pair, cat. no. 132.
in the painting of the floral cartouches over the
green ground decorated with floral scrolls, a Wall vases first appeared in the Ming dynasty,
popular design of Qianlong period vases. although their popularity increased dramatically
in the eighteenth century when they were made
Wall vases of the Jiaqing period were produced in in a variety of media. Flattened at the back as
an array of shapes and designs; see one of ovoid through cut in half and often made in pairs, these
form, similarly painted with floral cartouches vases were commonly hung inside sedan chairs,
against a green ground, sold at Christie’s London, as depicted in the hand scroll An Ice Game by Jin
22nd July 1981, lot 198; and one of rectangular Kun, Cheng Zhidao and Fu Longan, in the Palace
section with a turquoise ground, in the Capital Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete
Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum.
Works of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 15, Shanghai, Paintings by the Court Artists of the Qing Court,
2000, pl. 130. Compare also a Qianlong mark and Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 61.

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