A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE BLACK-GROUND BALUSTER VASE AND COVER

Description:

China, Yongzheng period
H. 63 cm
Finely enamelled around the exterior with floriform and leaf-shaped panels depicting various flowering and blossoming plants, reserved on a black ground with chrysanthemum heads, and green scrolling foliage.
From a South German private collection, acquired from Bernheimer, Munich, in the 1990s
Cf.: George C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, London, pl. LIV; Porcelain from China and Japan, Die Porzellangalerie der Landgrafen von Hessen-Kassel, exhib. cat., Berlin 1990, ill. 179 - Minor wear or small losses to enamels