2025 YELLOW WUFU VASE. GELBGRUNDIGE WUFU-VASE. China. Porcelain, overglaze colors on a yellow background. Inside, the underside of the handles and underneath the foot glazed turquoise. Flattened double guard shape with two curved handles, decorated with dense, symmetrically arranged scrolls and leaves. On the front and back each two large lotus flowers with shou sign in the center and dense petals around. The flower on the lower part surrounded additionally by five red bats. The foot with a ruyi border. The double gourd (hu) and bats (bianfu) are a homonyms and symbols for good luck/happiness and are often applied in combination. Here elegantly distributed on form and decor. The five bats (wufu) stand for the five congratulations: long life, prosperity, health, love of virtue and a peaceful death in old age. Height 22cm, width 15cm. Underneath spared out of the turquoise glaze and in underglaze blue: A six-partite Qianlong mark, but probably later. Condition A. Supplement: Older Japanese wooden storage box. Provenance: -Private Collection Baden-Wuerttemberg. Acquired at Galerie Herbert Cresnik, Baden-Baden. Literature: -Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum: Ch’ien-lung and Other Wares. Vol. II Tokyo 1981. Compare type fig. 3. -The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty. Shanghai. 2003. Compare type fig. 277. 黄底五福葫芦瓶 高22cm/宽15cm 釉上黃色彩。瓶裡，把手下面和底部天藍 色釉。 底部青花六字乾隆款， 可能更晚。 附带物品：日本木制盒。 来源：巴登巴登州私人收藏，从巴登巴登 州Herbert Cresnik画廊处获得。 参考文献： -Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum: Ch’ien-lung and Other Wares. Vol. II. Tokyo 1981. Compare type: Fig. 3。 -The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty. Shanghai. 2003. Compare type: Fig. 277。 € 25.000 - 35.000 | $ 27.250 - 38.150
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