Qing guangxu tank butterfly figure lotus leaf powder enamel

• RMB 437000
• HKD 540173
• USD 65550
• EUR 48070

this product is our product of late qing dynasty imperial porcelain, tank bunch of neck, shoulder under micro, shape dignified neat, embryo glaze is excellent, jade-like stone, white jade mouth along the week ruyi yuntou grain, act the role ofing lotus-shaped grain close at the foot. Cover can perfect glazing, jade-like stone, white jade with pastel painting “the butterfly with a silver spoon in her mouth” figure, can see dance butterfly, different posture, color gorgeous, is not the same, calligraphic style. The wing mass transfer performance is exquisite, points and lines are smooth and vivid, like a interesting idea of the traditional Chinese painting sketch. “Butterfly” and “heads” homophonic, so the adjustment to contain a “life to the old” implication. The overall painting fine, glazed Ming yan, very wonderful. Butterfly decorative first appeared in the qianlong period, the color rolling way imperial porcelain, to light the popular, emperor daoguang love to deep, Beijing’s Palace Museum collection several light toward the imperial TangMing white-floored butterfly tattoo porcelain, elegant is reporting, is open the famille rose after the butterfly tattoo.

source: sotheby’s in Hong Kong in 2013