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the tall cylindrical body supported on a splayed foot and rising to a waisted neck and upright rim, the body painted with a continuous scene of four luohan in a garden setting, seated beneath pine trees and surrounded by scrolls and scholarly objects, all above lingzhi sprays and a keyfret border at the foot, and below diaper and keyfret bands at the shoulder, the neck painted with scattered ‘antiques’
Height 19 in., 48.3 cm
PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 20th September 2005, lot 344.
Lantern-form porcelain vases came into vogue in the Qianlong period and production continued into the 20th century. Vases of this shape were typically decorated in enamels or glazed in ‘robin’s egg’ blue tones, however underglaze blue versions are also known. Two slightly taller Qianlong period underglaze blue lantern-form vases featuring auspicious animals in landscapes are in the Palace Museum, Beijing illustrated in Gugong bowuguan cang wnwu zhenpin quanji: qinghua youlihong / The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red, vol. 3, Hong Kong, 2000, cat. nos 134-135. Another vase of this shape, decorative technique, and date bearing a landscape scene sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26th November 2014, lot 3258.
清十八 / 十九世紀 青花四仙圖燈籠瓶
來源 紐約佳士得2005年9月20日 , 編號344