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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN

Property from an Important American Private Collection
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A MASSIVE AND RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 重要美४私́珍藏
LAVENDER-GROUND DOUBLE-GOURD VASES 清Բ緒 淺藍ঃ粉彩花卉紋葫蘆૯瓶ˏ對 礬紅Ǚ永慶長春ǚ款
YONGQING CHANGCHUN MARKS IN IRON RED, GUANGXU PERIOD Ϝ源
(1875-1908) 法४家族珍藏
香港蘇富比，2005年10月23日，拍品編號443
24 in. (61 cm.) high
$120,000-180,000
PROVENANCE:
A French Family Collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 23 October 2005, lot 443.

The mark that appears on the base of these rare vases, Yongqing
Changchun (Eternal Celebration of Everlasting Spring), can also be
found on more typical Dayazhai wares made for the Empress Cixi, and
may have been a reference to one of her residences. After the Tongzhi
Emperor reached his age of majority, the dowager empress moved into
the Changchun Gong (Palace of Eternal Spring), and lived there for
some ten years before she had the Chuxiu Gong (Palace of Harbouring
Grace) refurbished and took up residence there.
The size and decorative scheme of the present pair is extremely
unusual. A related, but much smaller yellow-ground vase with a similar
design, also with a Yongqing Changchun mark, was sold at Christie’s
Hong Kong, 26 April 2004, lot 1085, with an identical vase in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Guo Xingkuan and Wang Guangyao,
Guanyang Yuci: Gugong bowuyuan cang Qingdai zhici guanyang yu
Yuyao (Official Designs and Imperial Porcelain: The Palace Museum’s
Collection of Official Porcelain Designs and Porcelains from Imperial
Kilns of the Qing Dynasty), Forbidden City Publishing, Beijing, 2007, p.
321.
The original sketch on which the shape and design of the present
pair is based is illustrated in Guanyang Yuci (ibid.), p. 320, no. 103.
(Fig. 1) According to the note accompanying the sketch, pairs were
commissioned in both 'light blue' and yellow grounds. Two pairs of large
(2 chi) light-blue ground vases, such as the present pair, were ordered,
as well as a number of pairs in smaller sizes.

(marks) Fig. 1 Original sketch of a double-gourd vase of this pattern, as illustrated in
Guanyang Yuci, Beijing, 2007, p. 321, ©Palace Museum, Beijing.
圖ˏ て葫蘆૯瓶紋樣ⅲ原始草圖，Ϝ源於Ǘ官樣御瓷ǘ，٫̺， 年 頁
©故宮博ḵ院，٫̺

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