Beschreibung:

A VERY RARE CELADON-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE VASE QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD the globular body surmounted by a tall waisted neck, brightly enameled with an elaborate stylized design of lotus sprays bearing multi-colored blooms linked by meandering vines, flanked by a band of lappets around the base and a border of pink and blue ruyi heads encircling the shoulders, the neck decorated on each side with a gilded musical chime suspended from an iron-red bat flanked by a pair of blue chilong among further foliage encircling the two animal's head handles, the everted rim of barbed outline formed as a clothlike canopy of stiff leaves alternating with ruyi motifs to match the border around the gently splayed foot, with gilding around the rim and outline, the base of the neck and around the foot, base with seal mark in iron-red Height 18 5/8 in., 47.3 cm