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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SOUTH AMERICAN COLLECTION
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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FAMILLE ROSE FACETED PEAR-SHAPED VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Of rectangular section, the vase is decorated on two wide facets of the bombé body with
a quatrefoil panel, enclosing a vignette of peony, crabapple and begonia growing amidst
blue rocks on one side, and on the reverse with chrysanthemum, wanshouju and balsam also
growing amidst blue rocks, all within gilt borders and against a turquoise ground richly
decorated with composite fower scroll on all sides including, on the main sides, a leafy stem
of three peaches rising from a lotus pod in the center of a lotus blossom positioned below a
pink bat suspending a chime on the neck between a pair of handles in the form of iron-red
bats grasping ruyi in their mouths on the narrow sides. A narrow ruyi border is below the
mouth rim, and a band of pendent leaf tips decorates the foot. The interior and base are also
enameled in turquoise.
11 in. (28 cm.) high, wood stand

$600,000-800,000

PROVENANCE:

Acquired in Paris in the 1880s, and thence by descent within the family.
清乾隆 松石綠地粉彩開光「滿堂富貴」圖方瓶 礬紅六字篆書款

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