1775-1800Comprising two beaker and three baluster vases with covers, each is unusually molded in relief and then gilt and painted with scrolling vines and lotus, a cloud-scroll border decorates the shoulders of the three covered vases and at the lips of the two beaker or trumpet vases (gu); a band of plantain leaves surrounds the bases of all, each is decorated with rare roundels containing different scenes of Chinese life, some courtly, others possibly from the theater, and garden views. 10 ¼in (26cm) high, with covers (5).,转到 Chinese Works of Art Go
注脚:1775-1800年 外銷模印描金人物圖瓷瓶一套Provenance: Christie's, New York, 27 January 2014, lot 332來源：佳士得紐約，2014年1月27日，拍品編號332This set of forms is derived from domestic Chinese prototypes, known as "five altar offerings" (wugong), used for rituals and burial, but the set was adopted for Western use as purely decorative groupings for chimney shelves, mantels or atop cabinets, and appear as such in countless European eighteenth century European paintings of interiors. Mantlepiece sets were described in one V.O.C. letter, as recorded by Christiaan J. A. Jörg, Pronk Porcelain: Designs by Cornelis Pronk, Groningen, 1980, 54, as including "3 bottles and 2 vases, as enameled, 40 colored and one gold, 40 blue and white (thus) 100 ps according to drawing..." Such sets were mostly exported from the later seventeenth century until the late eighteenth century.