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A FAMILLE ROSE ‘ARCHAISTIC TILES’
JARDINIÈRE
Guangxu
Heavily potted, the tapered cylindrical body
decorated in vivid enamels to the exterior with four
archaistic circular eave tiles enclosing characters
reading ‘Yan Nian Yi Shou’, each bracketed by four
iron-red swooping bats and separated by stylised
shou characters, all reserved on a bright yellow
ground above lotus lappets to the foot and a band
of stylised ruyi-heads to the rim, the interior with a
circular drainage hole.
33.6cm (13 1/4in) high

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY26,000 - 43,000

清光緒 黃地粉彩福壽拱「延年益壽」瓦當紋缸

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A FAMILLE ROSE ‘HUNDRED BATS’
GLOBULAR TRUMPET-NECKED VASE
Guangxu six-character mark and of the period
Brightly enamelled with a profusion of iron-red bats
in flight amidst multicoloured ruyi clouds, between
a band of ruyi heads at the rim and upright lappets
around the foot, divided at the shoulder by a band
of lotus sprays alternating with gilt shou characters
on the shoulder above a gilt relief border.
39.5cm (15 1/2in) high

£6,000 - 8,000
CNY52,000 - 69,000

清光緒 粉彩百蝠紋天球瓶
礬紅「大清光緒年製」楷書款

Provenance: an English private collection

來源：英國私人收藏

Represented in conjunction with the character shou
壽, meaning longevity, and blossoming lotuses,
symbolising fertility, bats are homophone with the
word for happiness 福. Combined with coloured
clouds, symbolic of luck, red bats were also
regarded as representing the upper limits of heaven,
generating the pun ‘Vast happiness piled up to the
sky’, (hongfu qitian 洪福齊天).

Compare with a very similar vase, Guangxu, in the
Nanjing Museum, illustrated in China’s Jingdezhen
Porcelain Through The Ages, Qing Dynasty,
Hong Kong, 1998, p.357.

A similar vase, Guangxu mark and of the period,
was sold in these rooms on 17 May 2012, lot 359.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 218
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.