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VARIOUS PROPERTIES The Imperial poem inscribed on the present wall vase is recorded in Siku
Quanshu (The Complete Library of the Four Treasures). It was also recorded
1273 that Emperor Qianlong composed this poem in the wuyin year (1758) to
express the delight he enjoyed while seeing a wall vase flled with a fower
A FAMILLE ROSE VASE-FORM WALL VASE hanging inside of his sedan chair on his way to a hunting trip.
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE 清乾隆 粉彩御製詩福壽雙全壁瓶 礬紅單行六字篆書款
PERIOD (1736-1795)
(mark)
The center of the body is inscribed and decorated with an imperial poem
eulogizing wall vases by Emperor Qianlong, followed by two iron-red seals,
weijing and weiyi (‘be pure, be of one mind’) within a gilt border between a pair
of iron-red bats, all within a network of lotus scrolls, below the neck decorated
with a gilt shou character at the center between a pair of tubular iron-red
handles in iron-red with gilt foral scroll. The fat reverse is decorated with
scattered fower-heads.

9º in. (23.5 cm.) high

$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE

Ofered at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 October 1991, lot 991.