A Chinese famille rose baluster ‘crane and lotus’ meiping, Y...

Hammer

£5,500

A Chinese famille rose baluster ‘crane and lotus’ meiping, Yongzheng period, finely painted with two cranes amid red and pink lotus and rockwork, one stem with a grasshopper, later replacement biscuit porcelain neck, unglazed base, 18.7cm high, replacement neck.

cf. a famille rose meiping similarly painted with lotus and with an unglazed base, dating from the Yongzheng period, sold by Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art sale, 8 October 2008, lot 2599.

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Please note the neck is a replacement where a hole has been cut out at the top and later inset with a later biscuit neck which has a hairline crack. The glaze with occasional minor scuffs and scratches, the foot is slightly unevenly potted, tiny chip to foot, otherwise in good condition.