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A CHINESE IMPERIAL IRON-RED ALTAR VESSEL
QIANLONG 1736-95
The ovoid body painted with four lotus sprays between lappets and leaves, with a raised band to the
tall cylindrical neck, all raised on a wide domed foot, the base concave, 22cm.
£1,000-2,000
Provenance: from an English private collection, London.
Cf. A similar altar vase can be seen in a painting by Giuseppe Castiglione in The National Palace Museum,
Taipei, illustrating the Qianlong Emperor beneath trees and beside a table with a number of other treasures;
see Palastmuseum Peking Schätze aus der Verbotenen Stadt, Berlin, 1985, no.41, pl.24. For another example
presented to Cheltenham College, England, by Yuan Shikai in 1914, and now in the Weishaupt Collection,
see G Avitabile, From The Dragon’s Treasure, London, 1987, no.176, p.127. See also P Lam, Qing Imperial
Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1995, no.83. Another example can be found in the British Museum, London.

清乾隆 御製礬紅寶相花紋甘露瓶

The Qianlong Emperor by Giuseppe Castiglione in
The National Palace Museum, Taipei

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