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AN IRON-RED AND GILT BEAKER VASE, QING DYNASTY, EARLY 19 TH CENTURY, the rounded body
rising from a tall pedestal foot to a wide, cylindrical neck and flared galleried mouth, densely painted with butterflies, birds, and flowers
in iron-red with gilt highlights
⌲Ί̓㈭݊ ⹙㈲ᒖ䛾㟞划㲣㥶㈸ᄷ
Height 15¼ in., 38.7 cm
$ 3,000-5,000
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A RETICULATED FAMILLE-ROSE HEXAGONAL VASE AND STAND, QING DYNASTY, 18 TH
CENTURY, with six tapering sides rising from a splayed, conforming foot to sloping angular shoulders and a flared rim, each side
painted in bright enamels with reserves in the form of vases issuing blossoms and depicting boys in gardens bearing auspicious objects,
the shoulders with painted landscape medallions, all reserved on a reticulated turquoise honeycomb diaper ground, the neck molded with
vases of flowering prunus branches against a lime-green ground, the foot with panels reserving grisaille-painted bamboo outlined in iron-
red with gilt scrollwork, raised on a conforming stand with scalloped floral reserves against a ground of iron-red with gilt foliate motifs
and supported on ruyi-form bracket feet (2)
⌲ژ̓㈭ ㆶᒖ䤑⾧䪸ٶၝృښ⨣䕐Ꮤ
Height 16 in., 40.6 cm
$ 15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE ҳ⎽
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York. Ralph M Chait Galleries喑㈽㈱
Reticulated wares of the 18 century show the technical mastery achieved by Jingdezhen potters during
th
this time. The present lot incorporates many stylistic similarities with reticulated hexagonal lanterns with
conforming stands also made during this period.
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