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Provenance: A private British collection.
Note: The manner of painting is
reminiscent of works by the Italian Jesuit court painter Giuseppe Castiglione
(1688-1766). Castiglione's paintings fused European techniques of perspective
and shading with traditional Chinese ink painting, which greatly influenced
official court painting at that time.
Vases of this form, especially
those with underglaze red decoration, are especially rare. Underglaze copper red pigments are notoriously difficult to fire
successfully and the combination of cobalt blue represents a further challenge.
A similar example from the L. van
der Heyden à Hauzeur collection was sold, Christie's London, 9 December 1985, Lot 124.
A closely related vase is
illustrated in 'Imperial Perfection, The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese
Emperors Kangxi-Yongzheng-Qianlong, A selection from the Wang Zing Lou
Collection', Sings Gallery, Hong Kong, 2004, Catalogue no. 27, with a preface by
Robert Jacobson and an introduction by Julian Thompson. The catalogue accompanies an exhibition which
was held at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA.
An underglaze blue, red and white
lantern vase painted with a continuous landscape was sold in these rooms, 11th
February 2010.
