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1972.43-50 (C-605)
Vase

Qing dynasty, Qianlong mark and period (1736-1795)
Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels,
3
17.2x15.0 (6 /4 X5%)
Harry G. Steele Collection, Gift of Grace C. Steele
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed in seal script on the base in underglaze blue in three
columns of two characters each: Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi
[made in the Qianlong reign of the great Qing dynasty]

TECHNICAL NOTES
The vase is well potted and has a colorless glaze. The foot-ring
is rounded, with a glazed and recessed base. There is a small
hairline crack at the lip.

PROVENANCE
(Yamanaka, New York); sold to Harry G. Steele [1881-1941],
Pasadena; his widow, Grace C. Steele.

N THE EXTERIOR, more than one hundred stylized
Ofloral medallions are painted in famille rose enam-
els; the colors include pink, blue, yellow, green,
turquoise, orange, and black. This decorative scheme
first appeared on Chinese ceramics made for Japan in the
1
early seventeenth century and apparently was revived in
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, beginning in
the reign of Yongzheng. 2
SL

NOTES
1. See Hayashiya and Trubner 1977,115.
2. For a similarly decorated bowl with a Yongzheng mark, see
Fine Chinese Works of Art and Paintings, sale, Sotheby's, New
York, 4 June 1982, lot 269.

foot-ring and reignmark
on base of 1972.43.50

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