DOUCAI SQUIREL & GRAPE CELESTIAL VASE
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Description
The Chinese celestial porcelain vase clay is fine and exquisite, the glaze smooth with a moist appearance, the finishing meticulous. The globular body with round shoulder further to cylindrical tall neck with flat opening, raised on flat base. The exterior decorated in DouCai design, hand painted in cobalt blue drawing lines, filled with various soft colors, depicted vines and grapes decorated with playful little squirrels. Banded with double fine lines under the opening rim. Elegantly displayed upon a carved hardwood stand.
Mark on base, a six blue seal script -ZhuanShu- characters reign mark, QianLong Reign Period of Great Qing.
The combination of squirrels and grapes is most commonly seen in later periods. Squirrels have great reproductive powers, just like the vines - where grapes grow in large clusters. The squirrel (in Chinese songshu: rat in the pine tree) can also be a visual substitute for the first of the Chinese zodiac signs: the Rat. It is named zi - number one - which is also associated with the word zi for sons. Squirrels with grapes can therefore be read as the well-wishing expression duozi duofu (abundant fortunes and offspring) – a typical example of Chinese word-play. Vines being a metaphor for fertility and signifying the continuity of generations within a family.
Dimensions: 17" H x 10" Dia
Dimensions (Stand): 2" H
Mark on base, a six blue seal script -ZhuanShu- characters reign mark, QianLong Reign Period of Great Qing.
The combination of squirrels and grapes is most commonly seen in later periods. Squirrels have great reproductive powers, just like the vines - where grapes grow in large clusters. The squirrel (in Chinese songshu: rat in the pine tree) can also be a visual substitute for the first of the Chinese zodiac signs: the Rat. It is named zi - number one - which is also associated with the word zi for sons. Squirrels with grapes can therefore be read as the well-wishing expression duozi duofu (abundant fortunes and offspring) – a typical example of Chinese word-play. Vines being a metaphor for fertility and signifying the continuity of generations within a family.
Dimensions: 17" H x 10" Dia
Dimensions (Stand): 2" H
Condition
Over all in EXCELLENT condition.
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DOUCAI SQUIREL & GRAPE CELESTIAL VASE
Estimate $800 - $1,200
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