€7,500
A pair of Chinese cloisonne 'ganglu ping' or holy water vases, 18/19th C.
H.: 22,9 cm
The shape of this bottle vase is similar to iron-red-decorated porcelain examples made during the Qianlong period as court gifts to Tibetan monks.
Ref:
-Christie's, New York,September18, 2014, lot 628, for acomparable example. (sold USD 23.750) (link)
- The Emperor Qianlong is portrayed with one of these porcelain vases on a table next to him in a painting by Giuseppe Castiglione illustrated by E.S. Rawski and J. Rawson (eds.) in China: The Three Emperors, London, 2005, p. 282, no. 194.
- Another porcelain example in the collection of the Nanjing Museum is illustrated by Xu Huping in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 225,.
- A pair in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, is illustrated in Monarchy and Its Buddhist Way: Tibetan-Buddhist Ritual Implements in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1999, p. 184, no. 91.
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