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A LARGE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ‘WU
SHUANG PU’ BALUSTER VASES
19TH CENTURY
Each vase is decorated with two turquoise-
ground gilt-decorated archaistic dragon handles.
The bodies are decorated in mirror image with
scattered characters from the Wu Shuang Pu,
the “Table of Peerless Heroes”. Each fgure is
accompanied with a title and panels shaped
as auspicious objects enclosing inscriptions
identifying the characters. The rim and the foot are
decorated with a foral squared-scroll band.
51 in. (129.5 cm.) high
(2)
£40,000-60,000 $51,000-75,000
€47,000-69,000
The descriptive texts on the vase are taken from
the woodblock printed manual Wu shuang pu
compiled by Jin Gu Liang during the mid-17th
century. The manual describes forty unique (and
hence peerless) heroes from the Han to Song
dynasties.
Compare with a pair of large ‘Wu Shuang Pu’
vases with dragon borders sold at Christie’s
South Kensington, 11 November 2015, lot 723.
A similar vase with the same border as the
current lot, however without handles, was sold at
Christie’s London, 10 May 2011, lot 320.
清十九世紀 粉彩描金無雙譜大瓶一對
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