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MARCHANT: NINE DECADES IN CHINESE ART

744 A MASSIVE AND SUPERBLY-DECORATED
FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER JAR
AND COVER

YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

The massive jar is decorated on the exterior with numerous
lively vignettes including fshermen at work in their boats and
their families in their houseboats, four men playing games at
a picnic, and a scholar and lady drinking in a canopied boat.
The scenes are incorporated into a continuous riverscape with
many further scenes of elderly men, ladies, and children at play,
beneath sprays of prunus, lotus, peony and chrysanthemum upon
a pink geometric foral band at the shoulder and peony sprays on
the neck. The domed cover is similarly decorated with a pink
foral band above the rim below fshermen and boys at play, and
surmounted by a gilded bud-shaped fnial. The base is unglazed.
31√ in. (81 cm.) high
$80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE

Lady Jane Lane Collection, Cornwall, England.
Lady Jane Lane was a descendant of the Staffordshire family who
assisted in the escape of Charles II to France in 1651. The family
estate in Staffordshire was sold in 1927 and Lady Jane’s parents
moved to Mawnan Smith, outside Falmouth, Cornwall, where
Lady Jane was born.

清雍正 粉彩漁家樂圖將軍罐

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