A FINE MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE
DOUCAI AND FAMILLE ROSE ‘ANBAXIAN’ VASE, TIANQIUPING
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The magnificent vase is superbly potted with a globular body surmounted by a columnar neck, delicately enamelled in the doucai and famille rose palettes, on the body with the anbaxian, ‘Eight Daoist Emblems’, each tied with flowing ribbons, amid leafy scroll issuing lotus blossoms in two rows, all between lappets at the foot and a band of cloud-shaped collar at the shoulder. The neck is enamelled with four lotus blossoms, beneath pendent double-fish and musical chimes.
HEIGHT : 21 1/4 in. (53.9 cm.) high
PRICE : Env. 15.000.000 €
SOURCE : CHRISTIES
PROVENANCE
George Hathaway Taber (1859-1940) Collection, prior to 1925, and thence by descent within the family
Mrs. Francis Keally (nee Mildred Taber, 1891-1975) Collection
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, gift of Mrs. Francis Keally,
accessioned in 1960
