CHINA - QIANLONG period (1736-1795) Porcelain... - Lot 38 - Audap & Associés

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CHINA - QIANLONG period (1736-1795) Porcelain... - Lot 38 - Audap & Associés
CHINA - QIANLONG period (1736-1795) Porcelain meiping vase decorated in blue underglaze on the body with eight fruits in their foliage: peaches, pomegranates, digested lemons, lychees, hibiscus, medlars, cherries and goji berries. The foot decorated with a frieze of banana leaves, the shoulder decorated with a frieze of lotus petals, the neck with four stylized flowers. On the reverse, the six-character mark in blue underglaze in zhuanshu of Qianlong. (Firing defect.) Height 27 cm high Provenance: - Former collection Lémerie Lacouture (1879-1955), naval officer ; - Then by family descent. This model of vase is largely inspired by the blue-white porcelain vases of the early Ming period meticulously decorated with flowers or fruits. In the Qianlong jishidang, Qianlong's daily notes, on June 25, 1738, the Qianlong emperor asked his eunuchs to present Tang Yin, superintendent of the imperial factory in Jingdezhen, with several blue-whites from the "Xuande kilns", including pieces from the Yongle (1402-1424) and Xuande (1425-1435) periods in order to copy them. The originals and copies were then to be reintegrated and donated to the imperial collection. This model can be decorated with three, six or up to ten different fruits and flowers. Qianlong craftsmen tried to imitate the "heaping and piling" typical of Yongle and Xuande blue-white by adding dotted brushwork in the darker parts of the designs. This effect is clearly visible on our vase. Reference: Yongle-period vase with a similar decoration in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of The Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), 2000, No. 30, p. 32; another Yongle-period vase preserved and illustrated in National Palace Museum, Taipei, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II (part 1), Hong Kong, 1963, pl. 1; another Qianlong-period vase reproduced in National Palace Museum and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of The Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), 2000, No. 117, p. 131.
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