AN IMPORTANT FAMILLE ROSE VASE, YONGZHENG MARK AND PROBABLY OF THE PERIOD
China, 18th-19th century. The ovoid body rising from the short tapered foot to a waisted neck with everted lip. Superbly enameled in bright colors with some details and contours painted in iron-red to depict pairs of animals, including phoenixes, cranes, birds, and ducks, amid peony blossoms and other flowers, swirling clouds, rockwork, and a gnarled leafy maple tree. The base with an underglaze-blue six-character seal mark da Qing Yongzheng nianzhi and probably of the period.

Provenance: Estate of Jacqueline Kemp, owner of Windsor Antiques in Darien, Connecticut, USA.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and firing flaws, particularly to interior of neck, as well as a glaze line (ca. 2.4 cm long) to the shoulder which is near-invisible to the naked eye and does not reach the rim.

Weight: 1,792 g
Dimensions: Height 21.5 cm

The present vase was likely originally gifted to a married couple, as all animals depicted on the vase appear in pairs.

Expert's note: The present vase belongs to a small group of early Yongzheng-marked ceramics with intense, bright colors and fine enameling and painting. A famille rose dish sold at Christie's in 2016 (see Auction result comparison), for example, shows similarly painted and enameled peony blossoms, two similar tones of green enamel, a similarly “diluted” tone of blue enamel, contours and minute details all neatly picked out in underglaze iron-red, and pitting, all clear and distinct characteristics also found on the present vase. Given the compelling evidence, it can be suggested that the present vase comes from the same workshop, if not the same hand, as the Christie's dish.

Auction result comparison: Compare a related famille rose dish, also with a Yongzheng mark in underglaze blue and showing a similar color palette and style of painting, at Christie's New York in Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on 15 September 2016, lot 932, sold for USD 60,000.


雍正款及年代花開富貴粉彩罐
中國，1723-1735年。撇口，縮頸，豐肩，短圈足。繪工精細，釉色濃淡明暗，層次豐富。牡丹盛開，周圍仙鶴及飛鳥，盤旋的雲彩，岩石和樹。圈足内青花六字篆書“大清雍正年製“。

來源：Jacqueline Kemp收藏，美國康涅狄格州達連溫莎古玩店店主。
品相：品相極好，有輕微磨損和燒製瑕疵，尤其是頸部內部，以及肩部的邊緣（約 2.4 厘米長），肉眼幾乎看不見，也沒有到達邊緣。

重量：1,792 克
尺寸：高21.5 厘米

專家注釋：此罐屬於雍正早期瓷器，色澤艷麗，繪製精美。2016 年佳士得拍賣了一件粉彩盤（見拍賣結果比較）展示了相似的彩繪和琺瑯牡丹花、兩種相似色調的綠色琺瑯、同樣的釉下彩藍色，輪廓和細節都很相似，此瓶亦有鐵紅、麻點等特徵。 鑒於這些特徵，這件粉彩罐有可能與佳士得的盤子出自同一瓷坊。

拍賣結果比較：比較一件相似的青花雍正款的粉彩盤，見紐約佳士得Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2016年9月15日 lot 932, 售價USD 60,000。