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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE Based on a Kangxi pattern developed in the imperial
COLLECTION enameling workshops of the Forbidden City, Beijing, its
A RARE AND FINE FAMILLE-ROSE ‘PEACH’ obvious auspicious relevance would have made it popular
VASE, TIANQIUPING with the Yongzheng as well as the Qianlong emperor, who had
peaches represented in all possible media. The superb pattern
JIAQING SEAL MARK AND PERIOD of twin ß owering and fruiting peach trees extending around
the sides became one of the best-loved porcelain designs
with a globular body rising to a tall cylindrical neck, superbly
in the Qianlong period; however both the shape and motif
enameled with a gnarled tree trunk emerging from pierced
rarely feature in the Jiaqing reign and no other closely related
rockwork issuing two asymmetric peach branches extending
example appears to have been published. This Jiaqing version
halfway around the body and wrapping around the neck, the
also introduces the spearhead border into the design, which
fruiting boughs with pink blossoms edged in white, the nine
was modiÞ ed in the succeeding Daoguang reign.
peaches depicted in varying degrees of ripeness ranging
in color from pale yellow, tinged with green, to rose-pink Compare two slightly smaller Daoguang mark and period
deepening to darker pink spots and patches, the green- versions of this vase, with the bats and peaches bordered
enameled leaves shaded in turquoise and a yellowish-green by larger ruyi lappets encircling the rim and foot, one
to distinguish top and underside, all amid Þ ve soaring iron- in the Huaihaitang Collection, included in the exhibition
red bats and between lingzhi, grasses and foliage springing Ethereal Elegance. Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing. The
from a pale green ground and a pale pink spearhead border Huaihaitang Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University
around the gilt rim, the turquoise-enameled base with a of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2007, cat. no. 139; and another
six-character seal mark in iron red: together with a similar sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 17th January 1989, lot 699. For
vase, Republic Period, identically enameled in mirror image, a slightly smaller Jiaqing vase of this form, see a yellow-glazed
the base with an apocryphal Jiaqing seal mark, zitan wood version incised with dragons amidst clouds and waves, in the
stands (4) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 54.1130.
Height 12¾ in., 32.4 cm
㶭▱ㄞġġġ䰱⼑䤷⢥暁ℐ⚾⣑䎫䒞
PROVENANCE
˪⣏㶭▱ㄞ⸜墥˫㫦
Ton-Ying & Co., New York.
American Art Association, New York, 1st-2nd February 1929, ⍲ġ㮹⚳ġ䰱⼑䤷⢥暁ℐ⚾⣑䎫䒞
lot 415.
New York Private Collection. ˪⣏㶭▱ㄞ⸜墥˫ầ㫦
Imperial Oriental Art, New York, 1998. Ը๕
忂忳℔⎠炻䲸䲬
$ 80,000-120,000
伶⚳喅埻倗䚇炻䲸䲬炻1929⸜2㚰1军2㖍炻䶐嘇415
䲸䲬䥩Ṣ㓞啷
ⷅ⚳㜙㕡喅埻炻䲸䲬炻1998⸜

American Art Association, New York, 1st-2nd February 1929, lot 415 Mark of the Republic
㛔㉵⑩䣢㕤伶⚳喅埻倗䚇㉵岋⚾抬炻1929⸜2㚰1军2㖍炻䶐嘇415 Period vase
㮹⚳䒞㫦

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