A blue and white vase and four plates
18th/ 19th century
The vase decorated with antiquities and scholar's implements, the shoulder with symbols of the 'four arts', namely the zither, chess board, calligraphy and painting, the four plates decorated with antiquities in a landscape with a large flowering peony, the rim encircled by a composite border.
Plates,24.5cm diameter, vase 38.cm high.
The vase decorated with antiquities and scholar's implements, the shoulder with symbols of the 'four arts', namely the zither, chess board, calligraphy and painting, the four plates decorated with antiquities in a landscape with a large flowering peony, the rim encircled by a composite border.
Plates,24.5cm diameter, vase 38.cm high.
Sold for
AU$ 1,800
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
The four plates purchased Christie's Decorative Arts Sale, October 2011, Amsterdam, sale 2868, lot 456, catalogued as Qianlong (1736 - 1795).
Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art
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Chinese Works of Art