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Lot details Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 China, 1780-1820. The baluster sides rising from a short spreading foot to a waisted neck flanked by a pair of imitation-cloisonné chilong-form handles to flared mouth. The body vibrantly painted in bright enamels with gilt highlights to depict a lively scene of elegantly dressed ladies on a palace terrace indulging in leisurely pursuits, set against a monumental landscape with gnarled pines, towering mountains, and swirling clouds. Each side with a central dancer surrounded by musicians playing string, flute, and percussion instruments, with further ladies holding lanterns and jade chimes, carrying scrolls and auspicious fruits, or simply looking on. Provenance: Mme Safia Sassi, Paris, France. Formerly in a noted French private collection, by repute acquired from the above. A private collector in Austria, acquired from the above via the London trade. Condition: Natural wear, mostly to gilt. Expected manufacturing irregularities, including a circumferential firing crack around the foot. Minuscule chips and shallow surface scratches. One handle with a small section re-attached. Displaying exceptionally well! Weight: 12,812 kg Dimensions: Height 64.5 cm Please click here to read the full description The scenes painted to the body are framed by lime-green and pink-ground bands of ruyi-heads dotted with floral designs. The shoulder with a band of floral scroll below plantain leaves enclosing stylized flowerheads. The neck painted to each side with a bat above a stylized shou character and linked cash-coins suspended from a beaded tassel, surrounded by lotus blossoms borne on leafy scrolling vines, all against a lime-green ground. The mouth with a turquoise-ground band of ruyi-heads below the gilt rim. The foot with a band of key-fret below lotus scroll. The interior glazed turquoise, while the base is left unglazed, revealing the white ware, which has a remarkably unctuous, silky feel overall. This fine and meticulously painted depiction of ladies is reminiscent of a scroll painting, with the colorful decorations around the mouth, neck, and foot serving as the mounting. The scene depicts ladies of the Han Palace, a subject that rose in popularity in the mid-Qing dynasty when the Han dynasty became a subject of nostalgia. Elegant and beautifully dressed women occupy a romanticized world, engaged in exemplary behavior such as modesty and encouraging the transmission of culture as seen on this vase where they play music and dance. This theme also reflects the antiquarian interest characteristic of the Qing period. Literature comparison: Compare a Qianlong-marked lantern vase from the Qing court collection, now in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, similarly painted with ladies playing music surrounding a central dancer in an elaborate robe, no. Gu Ci 007371. It is suggested that the figures are modeled after the ladies in the painting Court Version of ‘Spring Dawn in the Han Palace’, completed by Sun Hu, Zhou Kun, and Ding Guanpeng in the 6th year of the Qianlong period (1741), included in the exhibition The All Complete Qianlong: The Aesthetic Tastes of the Qing Emperor Gaozong, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2013, cat. no. II-3.54, after the famous and much-copied handscroll Spring Morning in the Han Palace by Qiu Ying (ca. 1494-1552), in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. Auction result comparison: Type: Near identical Auction: Christie’s London, 3 November 2020, lot 182 Price: GBP 100,000 or approx. EUR 149,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: A large famille rose lime-green-ground ‘Hundred Boys’ vase Expert remark: Note the slightly larger size (73 cm). 点此阅读中文翻译 (Chinese Translation) 乾隆末期至嘉慶朝初年粉彩描金《漢宮春曉》瓶 中國, 1780-1820年。侈口，長頸，折肩，鼓腹，圈足。瓶身圈足內六字篆書款“大清乾隆年製”。頸部兩側一對螭龍耳。器身以明亮的琺瑯彩繪，並鎏金點綴，描繪出宮廷露台上衣著優雅的仕女們悠閒自得的熱鬧景象，映襯著蒼松聳立、雲霧繚繞的壯麗景觀。腹部粉彩描繪《漢宮春曉》圖，再現了漢代宮女的生活情景，林木、奇石與華麗的宮闕穿插掩映，鋪陳出宛如仙境般的瑰麗景象，兩側各有一名中央舞者，周圍有彈奏弦樂、笛子、打擊樂器的樂師，還有手持燈籠、玉磬