A 'FAMILLE-ROSE' 'BUTTERFLY' VASE MARK AND PERIOD OF GUANGXU
A 'FAMILLE-ROSE' 'BUTTERFLY' VASE MARK AND PERIOD OF GUANGXUEstimate $8,000 – $12,000
- Lot Sold $6,000 (Hammer Price)
- $7,200 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
the globular body surmounted by a trumpet neck and everted rim, painted in iron-red and 'famille-rose' enamels with numerous butterflies in flight divided by a frieze of detached lotus sprays and shou characters around the sloping shoulders above a raised gilt band, all below a ruyi band below the rim and upright lappets around the foot, the base inscribed in iron-red with a six-character mark
38.8CM
LITERATURE
Compare with two vases of this pattern sold Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2012 lot 312; see also a pair of vases sold Sotheby's London, 12 May 2010, lot 193