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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘LANTERN’ VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
the tall cylindrical body supported on a splayed foot and
rising to a waisted neck and upright rim, the body painted
with a continuous scene of four luohan in a garden setting,
seated beneath pine trees and surrounded by scrolls and
scholarly objects, all above lingzhi sprays and a keyfret
border at the foot, and below diaper and keyfret bands at the
shoulder, the neck painted with a selection of the ‘Hundred
Antiques’
Height 19 in., 48.3 cm
PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 20th September 2005, lot 344.
Lantern-form porcelain vases came into vogue in the
Qianlong period and production continued into the 20th
century. Vases of this shape were typically decorated in
enamels or glazed in ‘robin’s egg’ blue tones, however
underglaze blue versions are also known. Two slightly
taller Qianlong period underglaze blue lantern-form vases
featuring auspicious animals in landscapes are in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong bowuguan cang
wenwu zhenpin quanji: qinghua youlihong / The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and
White Porcelain with Underglaze Red, vol. 3, Hong Kong,
2000, cat. nos 134-135. Another vase of this shape,
decorative technique, and date bearing a landscape scene
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26th November 2014, lot 3258.
$ 30,000-50,000

清十八 / 十九世紀 青花四仙圖燈籠瓶
來源
紐約佳士得2005年9月20日，編號344

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