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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
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A RARE AND FINELY DECORATED FAMILLE ROSE
'LANDSCAPE' VASE
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND
OF PERIOD (1796-1820)
The vase is finely decorated with a continuous scene of figures,
including scholars talking and two boys crossing a bridge, amidst
a mountainous landscape with pines and blossoming prunus, and
courtyard houses hidden among rocks. The neck is decorated
on each side with a lotus flower beneath an endless knot and a
musical stone surrounded by bats and foliate scrolls, all reserved on
a ruby-enameled ground, and flanked by a pair of gilt handles.
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high

$200,000-300,000
A Jiaqing mark-and-period ruby-ground bottle vase with a
continuous scene of flowers and birds is illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum – 39 –
Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose
Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 194, no. 171.
A related Jiaqing mark-and-period ruby-ground vase with a scene
of immortals is illustrated in Ethereal Elegance; Porcelain Vases of
the Imperial Qing - The Huaihaitang Collection, Hong Kong, 2007,
pp. 378-81, no. 137, where another pair of Jiaqing vases with a
boating scene is illustrated, pp. 382-385, no. 138.

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