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A FINE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ‘MANDARIN PATTERN’ 來源：
FLATTENED BALUSTER VASES AND COVERS Patricia Kluge舊藏
Qianlong period, circa 1780
The vases and covers each brightly enameled within git C-scrolls 出版：
with four large fanciful panels of elaborately robed Chinese ladies 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Angels & Demonslayers》，香
and gentlemen standing on riverside terraces and enjoying a bucolic 港，2012年，頁88-89，圖版編號56
rural lifestyle, all reserved on extensive iron-red and gilt diaper-pattern
covering the remaining background of the vases and the domed Large, covered vases of this innovatory flattened form began to arrive
covers set with a front-facing gilt seated-lion finial, the shoulders each in Europe from about 1770 and proved popular both with Western
applied with two high-relief gilt lion-mask fixed-ring loop handles. European buyers and particularly in East-Coast North America. It
12in (58.4cm) high (2). seems that the English East India Company, retaining its monopoly of
shipping Asian items through its English entrepot ports to the US East
$12,000 - 18,000 Coast until the 1770s, had not deemed it commercially worthwhile
to ship massive earlier famille rose decorative vases and dishes
乾隆時期 約1780年 粉彩開光《人物故事》雙耳帶蓋扁壺一對 to potential buyers in colonial Boston, New York or Philadelphia.
These new flattened forms, very suitable for dressing a fairly shallow
Provenance: mantlepiece in a way that large globular vases were not, are still to be
Patricia Kluge Collection found in late 18th century East Coast homes, where they may have
remained since they first arrived often through the independent China
Published: traders who began to trade directly with Canton after February 1784,
Cohen & Cohen, Angels & Demonslayers, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 88- when the ‘Empress of China’ began her historic maiden voyage direct
89, no. 56 to Canton from New Yok harbor.

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