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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE WHITE-GROUND GU-SHAPED VASES
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN IRON RED IN A LINE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Each vase is decorated in bright enamels with scrolling lotus sprays and
with four of the Eight Buddhist Emblems (bajixiang) on the trumpet-shaped
neck above a yellow key-fret band interrupted by the reign mark, and with the
remaining four Buddhist Emblems on the bell-shaped foot above a band of
pink key fret. The interior and base are covered with turquoise enamel.

10¬ in. (27 cm.) high, boxes (2)
$60,000-80,000

Vases of this type are usually found as part of an altar garniture, with
matching incense burner and candlesticks, all invariably decorated with the
bajixiang and lotus scrolls. Although the decoration may have been the same,
the background color of these garnitures varied. A ruby-ground fve-piece
garniture in the National Palace Museum, is illustrated in Special Exhibition
of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, Taipei, 1994,
no. 105. A pair of similar yellow-ground vases of smaller size (23.5 cm.)
was sold at Christie’s London, 14 May 2013, lot 262, and another yellow-
ground example of larger size (37.2 cm.) was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
1 November 2004, lot 1147. A similar pair (28.6 cm.) from the Yokogawa
collection is included in the Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum:
Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1965, p. 155, no. 653.

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