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A RUBY-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE ‘IMPERIAL POEM’ WALL The present vase is brilliantly painted in famille-rose enamels utilizing
VASE a favorite palette and poem of the Qianlong emperor. The text is
Qianlong mark, Republic period written in clerical script, one of the four styles approved for inscribing
Of bottle vase form with a tapered lower body rising to a rounded imperial poems on vases, according to an official memorandum written
shoulder and tall, waisted neck, the principal side dominated by a by Tang Ying (1682-1756) dated the 7th year of the Qianlong reign
petal-form panel enclosing an imperial poem dated to the yiyou year (corresponding to 1742). The poem, Yong ci gua ping (‘Song for a wall
of the Qianlong reign (corresponding to 1765) followed by two seals vase’), was composed by the emperor in the yiyou year (corresponding
bearing the emperor’s name, the panel with a gilt border set against a to 1765) and the following year was included in Qing Gaozong yuzhi
raspberry-toned ground enlivened with composite floral scroll in vibrant shiwen quanji, yuzhi shi san ji (‘The Complete Collection of Qing
polychrome enamels, all below a ruyi-head border at the shoulder, Gaozong’s Imperial Poems, Book Three’). The same poem appears on
upright plantain leaves at the neck, and patterned borders at the rim, four Qianlong mark and period yangcai-enameled wall vases from the
the reverse enameled ruby red and with a recessed notch and four Qing Court Collection, and now in the National Palace Museum, Taipei
pierced holes for suspension, all set over an integral faux bois stand (coll. nos 中瓷001931, 中瓷001932, 中瓷001934, and 中瓷001926);
with a six-character Qianlong mark in gilt at the base. and on a Qianlong mark and period celadon-glazed wall vase from the
Tianminlou Collection sold at Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 2 April 2019, lot
10 1/2in (26.7cm) high 15.

$5,000 - 7,000 The poem reads:
依然膽搥式，卻異汝官珍；動挈路搴秀，靜懸屋盎春。製惟日趨巧，
Provenance: 道不易還淳；紅紫隨時閱，何曾著點塵。 乾隆乙酉御題
Sara Fredericks (1903-1986), likely acquired in the 1960s in New York,
thence by descent

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