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A PAIR OF ‘FAMILLE ROSE’ AND GILT HEXAGONAL BALUSTER VASES
Qing dynasty, Qianlong period
35,5 cm high each
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. nn. 4856, 4860.
Each of the six faces of the two vases with a larger and two smaller cartouches with rocaille frames, all reserved on a ground of vegetal arabesques, each of the cartouches decorated with a scene taking place in a garden near a pavilion with women, men and children.
A very similar vase is illustrated by Albert Jacquemart and Edmond Le Blant (1862, pl. IX, described as “Famille rose japonaise. Mandarins”); it is published by the same author again in 1866 (A. Jacquemart, Les Merveilles de la céramique, ou l’art de façonner et décorer les vases en terre cuite, faïence, grés et porcelaine depuis les temps antiques jusq’à nos jours. Premiére partie Orient, Paris 1866, p. 157).
Two pairs of vases with comparable shape and the same style of decoration are in the English royal collection (J. Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 2 voll. London 2016, II, pp. 454-455, nn. 1189-1192).
