An unusual small Chinese archaistic enameled and gilt porcelain cabinet vase 倣古风格珐琅彩花瓶 Six-character "Da Qing Qianlong yuzhi" seal mark “大清乾隆御制”六字款

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Oct 14, 2021

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A collection of fine Chinese porcelains and Asian decorative arts. Curated by Ben Farina, Head of the Asian Arts Department at Freeman's. Freeman's info@freemansauction.com

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  An unusual small Chinese archaistic enameled and gilt porcelain cabinet vase 倣古风格珐琅彩花瓶 Six-character "Da Qing Qianlong yuzhi" seal mark “大清乾隆御制”六字款

  Of square section, baluster form, modeled with archaistic kui-dragons scrolls in low relief, glazed in a pale cafe-au lait tone picked out with gold, all against a mottled turquoise and blue "robin's-egg" ground, a pair of scrolled handles at the shoulder, underside of foot with six character seal mark in low relief.

  
  
  (H: 4 1/2 in.)
  
  Qty: (1)
  
  

  Property from a private collection, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

  
  
  Footnote:

  NOTE: Compare a group of Qianlong period porcelain decorative items imitating archaic bronzes, with details in relief against a mottled ground suggesting the malachite or azurite encrustation to be found on such ancient vessels. See for example the gu-form vase from the Qing Court collection, preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in "The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration", no. 150, p 169. There, turquoise enamels have been applied to a teadust glaze, with raised details picked-out in gilding. For a vase with more closely-related "robin's-egg" ground, and archaistic scrolled motifs in low-relief and picked out in gilding, see the vase in the collection of J. T. Tai & Co., sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, October 7, 2010, lot 2128 and sold again at Poly Auction "Yu Gong", Beijing, June 7, 2021, lot 5126. Compare also the miniature archaistic molded vase and cover, with molded four-character Qianlong seal mark, sold at Christie's, New York, March 21, 2013, lot 1530; and a small archaistic bottle vase, sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, October 5, 2011, lot 1949. Compare also the small censer illustrated in "Catalogue of the Special Exhibition from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Muuseum of Kang-Hsi, Yung-Cheng and Ch'ien-Lung Porcelain Ware, Taipei 1993, p. 172, no 145 (center)

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