A LARGE CARVED AND MOULDED CELADON-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE BOTTLE VASE QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG – JIAQING PERIOD |

sturdily potted with a pear-shaped body rising from a short foot to a tall cylindrical neck, the exterior moulded and carved with gilt-decorated beribboned bajixiang and anbaxian picked out in iron-red and brown enamels, the emblems interspersed with multi-coloured 'flower-balls' and florets, all amidst white ruyi cloud scrolls and bats against an even celadon ground, all between trefoil motifs and scrollwork encircling the rim and borders of lappets and detached floral sprays skirting the foot, the base left white, inscribed in ink with a nineteen-character record dated to the second month of the gengxu year, signed Mengfu

A Northern French private collection.

The vase is in good overall condition with some minor rubbing to the enamels and gilding, especially at the rim.
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It is rare to find a vase of this large size with such brilliant moulded and enamelled decoration. However, a set of six closely related vases in the Royal Collection, acquired by King George IV before 1824, all later mounted in ormolu, also attributed to the late Qianlong to Jiaqing period, is preserved at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, no. RCIN 2354, and illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, London, 2016, vol. 2, pls 1319-1324. See also another rare example of similar large size and decoration, sold in these rooms, 15th May 1990, lot 311.