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period that a familiar, respected technique such as appliques, would be revisited and refined to an unprecedented degree.
Previously, thick potting was required to provide a stable support for the applied decoration and the appliques themselves were
prone to crack and shrink away from the body when cooling. The present vase evinces mastery over these technical challenges,
the applied decoration, each element finely detailed and enameled, adheres superbly to the body, and is further enhanced by the
painted decoration.

A similar vase, but of rouleau form, is in the Palace Museum, Beijing and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum, Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong 1999, pl. 143. See also a pear-shaped vase with
figural relief-decoration from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, sold in these rooms 20th March 2018, lot 329.

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