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Pair of vases and covers vases: reign of Qianlong, 1736-95, mounts: 1800-1825
Porcelain with celadon glaze mottled with streaks of copper-red and green and gilt bronze | 35.0 x 22.0 x 22.0 cm (whole object) | RCIN 35813
King's Drawing Room, Windsor Castle
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A pair of Chinese celadon glaze vases with English mounts. With ovoid body and shoulder tapering into a straight cylindrical neck, wound round with a chi dragon with forked tail, its front claws on the shoulder. The glaze is streaked here and there to resemble ancient stone. Set within a rounded foot ring, dressed with black to recall the style of Song dynasty guan ware, the glazed base, bearing, in the centre, the six-character reign-mark Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi (‘Made in the reign of the Qianlong emperor of the Great Qing’) in blue is written in seal script. The neck rim cut down and fitted with a gilt-bronze ring, with milled surface in imitation of snakeskin, on which sits a low, domed cover moulded with berry stems, previously with a further cresting.
Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Volume II.Provenance
Almost certainly George IV. Formerly in the Gallery at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, and inventoried as ‘A pair of sea green Bottles, clouded with embossed Lizards on the necks, fifteen inches [38.1 cm]’ (1829B, p. 46); sent to Buckingham Palace in March 1847 (1829A, p. 22). Recorded in the Inventory of 1826- Inventory no.88. They are recorded in the ‘1866’ Windsor Castle Inventory, pp. 264–5, no. 376, in the Van Dyck Room (now known as the Queen’s Ballroom).
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Porcelain with celadon glaze mottled with streaks of copper-red and green and gilt bronze
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35.0 x 22.0 x 22.0 cm (whole object)
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