A RARE CHINESE QUATRE-LOBED ‘BUTTERFLIES AND FLOWERS’ VASE

A RARE CHINESE QUATRE-LOBED ‘BUTTERFLIES AND FLOWERS’ VASE
SIX CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1736-95

With a bulbous body and waisted neck painted with colourful flower sprays interspersed with butterflies, the neck set with pink enamelled handles, the rim with a band of ruyi-heads and with a band of tall pink, yellow and turquoise lappets above the foot, the base glazed turquoise, 30cm.

Provenance: Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916), and thence by descent through the family. This vase is recorded in the Christie, Manson & Woods inventory at Broome Park, in December 1916 on page 84, no.50 where it is located in the Billiard room and described as ‘A Vase of detached quatrefoil section, enamelled with detached sprays of flowers and butterflies. 11 3/4in. high. Kien Lung’.

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來源：霍雷肖•赫伯特•基奇納元帥（1850-1916），之後由其後人繼承。據佳士得Manson & Woods出版的， Broome Park庫存手冊中記載，1916年12月，頁84， 編號50。