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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
scattered ‘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 wnwu 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.

$ 40,000-60,000

2005 9 20 344

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