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43 This rare and bold design of Westerners seems to be unrecorded on
A very rare large blue and white ‘European subject’ baluster vase Chinese porcelain. The clothing in particular is carefully and precisely
Qianlong drawn, as is the long curly hair on each figure, always a sign in Chinese
Boldly and unusually painted on one side with a blue-robed Westerner art that a Westerner is being depicted. The careful drawing of the hats
standing, reaching for a covered box held by a Western servant, a third and hair suggests that a Western print is being copied in Jingdezhen,
at the left carrying a covered dish, all wearing exotic Western hats, though it is hard to imagine what the original design was depicting.
robes, knee-length breeches, stockings and pointed shoes, a large tree For a robin’s-egg-glazed vase of this particular 18th century form, see
rising and spreading through clouds above them Liu Liangyu, Ch’ing Official and Popular Wares, A Survey of Chinese
50cm (19¾in) high Ceramics, vol. 5 , p.209.
£40,000 - 60,000
HK$470,000 - 710,000 CNY380,000 - 560,000

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