Sale
16868 - Fine Chinese Art, 5 Nov 2009
New Bond Street
Lot No: 201
The property of a Lady A very rare famille rose celadon-ground cylindrical vase
Qianlong seal mark and of the period
Finely and delicately enamelled on both sides of the body with a large square reserved cartouche within a relief-moulded gilt border, one depicting a long-tailed golden pheasant perched among tree peony beneath flowering magnolia and looking down at its brown-feathered mate perched on a lower outcrop, the other side with a smaller bird in flight towards a large cluster of tree peony and other foliage surrounding its mate perched on a rocky cluster, all on an elaborate ground crisply moulded in shallow relief with densely scrolling flower heads and washed with a translucent pale green glaze extending over the two animal-mask loop handles.
43.6cm (17¼in) high.
Sold for £210,000 inclusive of Buyer's Premium
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Footnote:
Provenance: removed from the Summer Palace, Beijing in 1860, by repute
Lord Loch of Drylaw (1821-1900), by repute
Alfred Morrison MP (1821-1897) and thence by descent to Lord Margadale of Islay, at Fonthill House, Tilsbury, Wiltshire, where the collection was named the Fonthill Heirlooms
The Fonthill Heirlooms, no.286/2 on label
Sold at Christie's, The Remaining Contents of Fonthill House, 1-2 November 1971, lot 480
The pair to this vase was sold at Christie's London on 18th October 1971 in the auction of The Morrison Collection of Chinese Porcelains, lot 92, illustrated pl.13. It was later sold again at Christie's Hong Kong on 21 May 1979, lot 264, and was more recently sold again in the same rooms, 29 April 2001, lot 556. This vase was also illustrated by A.du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1984, p.244, fig.6.
Apart from the pair to this vase, no other vase of this type appears to have been recorded.
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