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COLLECTION ARISTOCRATIQUE FRANÇAISE

LOTS 52–53

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RARE VASE LANTERNE EN PORCELAINE DE LA In its shape and decoration the present vase belongs to
FAMILLE ROSE À FOND RUBIS a group of porcelains produced at the imperial kilns in
Jingdezhen during the early years of the Jianqing reign.
MARQUE ET ÉPOQUE JIAQING
Porcelains of this period continued to be influenced by
la panse de forme finement peinte des dames de cour Qianlong designs and are quite likely to have been made
et de servantes dans le jardin d’un palais, entourées de by the same potters who made porcelains for the Qianlong
deux groupes de musiciennes et d’une danseuse, toutes emperor and his household. This finely painted continuous
parées de vêtements aux couleurs luxuriantes, la scène scene of elegant ladies in a palatial garden setting is
centrale entourée de part et d’autre de frises de ruyi, le reminiscent of scroll paintings, with the ruby-ground around
col et l’épaulement à fond rubis décorés de frises de lotus the mouth and foot serving as mounting for the painting.
colorés, le col orné d’une frise de ruyi à fond jaune et le Compare another vase of the same shape, size and
pied embelli d’une frise de leiwen à fond bleu, l’intérieur subject matter, possibly the pair to the present piece,
et la base émaillés turquoise, marque à six caractères en sold Sotheby’s New York, 16th September 2009, lot
cachet en rouge-de-fer à la base 222. See a Qianlong vase of different shape painted
30,5 cm, 12 in.
with the design of nine elders in ‘famille-rose’, also with
A rare Famille-Rose ‘Ladies of the Han palace’ lantern-shaped ruby-ground decoration around the mouth and foot,
vase, Jiaqing seal mark and period illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong. Qing Porcelain
from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989,
80 000-120 000 € pl. 28, together with another vase painted with the Eight
700 000-1 050 000 HK$ 89 000-134 000 US$ Immortals in between turquoise-ground panels, pl. 31; and
a lantern-shaped vase, also with a Qianlong reign mark and
清嘉慶 of the period, decorated with playing children between a
green-ground band, included in Treasures of the Royalty.
胭脂紅地粉彩人物故事圖燈籠瓶
The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty,
《大清嘉慶年製》款 Shanghai, 2003, pl. 320.

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