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A PAIR OF GRISAILLE-DECORATED YELLOW-GROUND A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ‘NINE PEACH’ BOTTLE VASE
RECTANGULAR JARDINIÈRES 19TH CENTURY
GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1911) The vase is decorated with the spreading branches of a fruiting peach tree
Each is decorated in grisaille on the long, slightly curved sides with narcissus, bearing nine large peaches and numerous white and pink blossoms, the
nandina and lingzhi growing below the branches of a crabapple tree and an graceful leaves painted in blue-green on the top and yellow green on the
oval, iron-red Dayazhai mark, and the ends are decorated with orchids, all underside. An apocryphal Qianlong seal mark is on the base.
below a band of scroll on the fat rim and reserved on a lemon-yellow ground. 21 in. (53.3 cm.) high
A four-character Yong Qing Chang Chun (‘Eternal Prosperity and Enduring
Spring’) $20,000-30,000
mark in iron red is on the white base between two D-shaped drainage holes.
9º in. (23.5 cm.) long (2)
PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 29 March 2006, lot 546.
$7,000-9,000 The Studio of the Clear Garden.
Peaches have traditionally been associated with Daoism and longevity. In
PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1950s, and thence by descent within the family. mythology, the goddess Xiwangmu, the Queen Mother of the West, owned
The Studio of the Clear Garden. a vast peach orchard, and it was said that anyone who ate the fruit would
清光緒 黃地墨彩芝仙祝壽圖長方盒 礬紅《永慶長春》《大雅齋》款 become immortal. As such, peaches are considered sacred and auspicious,
and when used as a decorative motif, convey wishes for longevity and good
fortune. Vessels decorated with luxuriant peach branches were very popular
in the Qing dynasty, and might have been commissioned as birthday gifts or
as a form of commemoration for an imperial birthday.
清十九世紀 粉彩九桃圖 大長頸瓶

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