22 – M4826
Description
Chinese imperial porcelain blue and white bottle vase, shang ping, painted in the Ming style with heaped and piled effect, with globular rounded body and four wide relief ribs, tall cylindrical flared neck and slightly splayed foot, painted on the body with six different large flowerheads on a continuous scrolling branch beneath six smaller flowerheads each with its characteristic leaves, including lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and camellia, above a wide band of blue wash ground lappets and beneath bands of ruyi-heads and different flowers on a scrolling branch at the shoulder, the neck with tall leaves above a keyfret band, beneath a further ruyi-head band with a crested wave band beneath the rim, the splayed foot with a scrolling branch.
The base with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong in underglaze blue and of the period, 1736-1795.
14 ⅞ inches, 37.8 cm high.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Sold by Marchant, 18th March 1965, with another similar vase.
- From a Swedish Private Collection, Gothenburg.
- Included by Marchant in their catalogue of Recent Acquisitions, 2003, 16, pp. 28/9.
- Sold by Marchant, 3rd April 2003.
- From an American private collection, Atlanta.
- Sold by Sotheby’s New York in their auction of Important Chinese Art, 20th March 2019, lot 528, 60/1.
- Three similar vases are illustrated by Regina Krahl and John Ayers in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, A Complete Catalogue, Volume III, Qing Dynasty Porcelains, London, 1986, 2564, TKS15/4871, TKS15/4873, pp. 1105/6 and colour plate with elaborate Ottoman gilt metal cover, p. 921.
- The pair to the above vase from the same Swedish collection, sold by Marchant 18th March 1965, was included by Marchant in Recent Acquisitions, 2004, 34, pp. 46/7.
- Peony, fuguihua, chrysanthemum, juhua, lotus, hehua and camellia, chahua, form the rebus yinian fugui, “may you enjoy wealth and honour throughout the year”. Often represented as flowers of the four seasons, the peony stands for spring, the lotus for summer, the chrysanthemum for autumn and the camellia for winter.
Condition
Overall in excellent condition, without any chips,crcaks,or restoration.
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