A 'famille-rose' 'peach' vase, Tianqiuping Qing dynasty,
19th century

the globular body rising to a slightly tapering cylindrical neck, brightly enamelled with two gnarled peach trunks, the knotted boughs in sepia and brown growing from a grassy bank, and extending around the sides and over the neck bearing clusters of the nine succulent peaches in tones of yellow shading to pink, among slender foliage in tones of green and turquoise, and blossoms in pink, blue and yellow, wood stand

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55 cm high

• Lot Sold $40,000 (Hammer Price)
• $48,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Literature

Peaches have long been linked to endless bliss in Chinese mythology. Peaches bestowing immortality were believed to grow in the garden of Xi Wang Mu, the Queeen Mother of the West, taking three thousand years to flower and the same time again to bear fruit.
A prototype Qianlong mark and period peach vase from the Meiyintang Collection, was sold Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 5 October 2011, lot 15

Condition Report

Some scattered dark specks in the glaze. One peach with the pink enamel not completely adhered in a small area approx 0.5 by 0.7cm and four smaller areas approx 0.4 by 0.2cm. A small area on the body where the white glaze has pooled around a more thinly glazed area approx 1.5 by 0.5cm. Generally good condition.