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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ERIC WESENBERG,
CALIFORNIA
166 Provenance
A GILT-DECORATED BLUE-GLAZED VASE, TIANQIUPING Sotheby’s New York, 18 September 2007, lot 275
Underglaze-blue Guangxu six-character regular mark and
of the Period 來源
Glazed over the entire globular body, tall waisted neck, base and 蘇富比紐約，2007年9月18日，拍品編號275
interior with an attractive cobalt blue which is further painted with
extraordinarily-detailed and well-executed gilt roundels on the body A near identical example is illustrated in National Museum of
and neck between stylized gilt leaf-lappets at the foot and ruyi- History:Major Holdings of the National Museum of History, Taipei, 1988,
lappets below the rim and divided by wide molded band at the p. 72 and another from the Kwan Collection was exhibited in Imperial
shoulder with gilt Shou-characters amidst scrolling lotus, the multi- Porcelain of Late Qing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, August-
subject roundels variously depicting grasses, grasshoppers, phoenix, September, 1983, p. 125, no. 126.
crabs, fish and stylized flower groupings on the neck and with birds,
monkey’s, twin-fish, bats, dragons musical stones and floral groups For other examples of this type of deep-blue-ground vase with
on the body, the dark-cobalt- underglaze-blue mark written vertically particularly-well-detailed gilt roundels painted with great attention to
on the blue-glazed base. detail and scale and also bearing Guangxu marks, see a pair sold at
15 1/8in (38.2cm) high Christie’s, London, 13 May 2019, lot 328; another at Christie’s, London,
4 November 2019, lot 201; and a pair sold at Christie’s, New York,
$9,000 - 12,000 17 March 2017, lot 1268.
See also an example illustrated in The Wonders of the Potter’s Palette:
清光緒 藍釉描金團花長頸瓶 《大清光緒年製》款 Qing Ceramics from the Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art,
Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1984, no.128.

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