A recently-discovered unique Imperial 18th-century ‘Yangcai’ Famille-Rose porcelain vase has sold at Sotheby's in Paris♍ for €16,182,800, setting a new record for any Chinese porcelain sold at auction in France.
The vase, which was discovered by chance in the attic of French family home and brought into the Paris officඣe by its unsu🍷specting owners in a shoe box, sold for more than 23 times the high estimate value of €700,000 after an intense 20 minute bidding battle.
When specialist Olivier Valmier opened the box to examine the vase, he was immediately struck by its quality. Further research revealed⛄ the vase to be a unique example produced by the finest craftsmen 🦋of the time for the Qianlong Emperor.
Left to the grandparents of the present owners by an uncle, the vase is listed among the contents of the latter’s Paris apartment after his death in 1947. It is recorded alongside several other Chinese and Japanese objects including other Chinese porcelains, two dragon robes, a yellow silk textile, and an unusual bronze mirror contained in a carved lacquer box. This mirror will be offere𓆏d in the Sotheby’s sale of Asian Art in Paris immediately a🅠fter the sale of the vase.
While the exact provenance of the vase and the other Chinese and Japanese pieces before 1947 cannot be traced, the receipt of a Satsuma censer acquired as a wedding gift in the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris by an ancestor of the family suggests an active interest in Asian art at a very early date. Similarly, this vase may wel🧜l have been acquired in Paris in the late 19th century when the arrival of Asian works of art initiated a fashion for Japanese and Chine🌼se art.
Interestingly, the only other vase of this shape and similar design, now in th🧸e collection of the Musée Guimet, Paris, was acquired by Ernest Grandidier (1833-1912) ab💧out the same time, around 1890 from Philippe Sichel, an Asian art dealer in Paris active in the late 19th century, and an early advocate of Japanese art in France.
The vase is of exceptional rarity: the only known example of its kind, it was produced by the Jingdezhen workshops. Famille-Rose porcelains of the period (or ‘yangcai’ porcelains, as they are known) are extremely rare on the market, with most examples currently housed in the National P𝄹alace Museum in Taipei and oဣther museums around the world.
On the rare occasions when pieces of this kind do come to auction they are the subject of fierce competition: earlier this year in Hong Kong a Famille-Rose porcela💎in bowl sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong for HK$239 million (£21.7 million; US$30.4 ꦍmillion).
The vase has a body encircled by♊ a magnificent landscape with deer, cranes and pine trees, all auspicious symbols of health and longevity: a genuine👍 painting on porcelain showing nine fallow deer and five cranes in a rocky landscape with a tumbling waterfall, surrounded by gnarled pines and mist-covered peaks expressing all the artist's dazzling talent. Only one other similar vase, although with slightly different subject matter and decorative borders, now in the Guimet museum in Paris, is known.
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