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It has a specially carved wood stand. On the center of the exterior body are two famille rose* medallions of theatrical scenes on a white background. One medallion depicts a lady sitting at a table and looking at herself in a mirror. An incense burner is on the table and a flower pot is placed on a shelf next to the mirror. The other medallion on the reverse side illustrates two ladies (one is likely the master and the other is her attendant judging by their hairstyles) reading a book together at a table. An inkstone, a brush holder, and a pile of books are spread out on the table. A shelf with antiques and flower pots is to the left of them. Apart from the two medallions, the rest of this small vase is fully adorned with many-colored famille rose decorations symbolic of good fortune, wealth, purity and longevity, such as cloud collars, rosettes, lanterns, peaches, peonies, Chinese roses, plantain leaf designs, the Eight Buddhist Emblems*, Chinese \" shou\" (longevity) characters, stylized lotus petal designs, polygonal designs which symbolize good fortune, wealth, purity and longevity. On the base of the footring there is an inscribed seal mark of \" da qing qianlong nian zhi\" (Made during the Qianlong reign of the Great Qing) in three columns. However, the ladies depicted on this vase here are typical female representations of the late Qing period. All of them are depicted with an egg-shaped face, willow leaf-shaped eye brows, and a cherry-shaped bright red mouth. These features were standards of beauty at that time. Further, the porcelain vessels produced during the Daoguang period (1821-1850) and later periods are frequently decorated with roundels of decoration against incised colored backgrounds that are covered with floral motifs. Therefore, the dating of this small vase should be the late Qing period, during or after the Daoguang reign. * Famille rose (fen cai) refers to a palette developed in the same basis of the famille verte palette (kang xi wu cai) of the Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty and which was under the direct influence of the enamel decoration ware. In the last years of the Kangxi reign, foreign rouge-red enamel was used to color flower petals. This started the trend toward a new palette (known in the West as famille rose) during the succeeding Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns. The famille rose is characteristically used in this way: glassy white (bo li bai) in which an opaque white enamel (lead arsenate) is employed as the base for coloring garments or flower petals; also, rue oil is used as the drying oil in mixing some pigments. Many enamels of the palette include certain imported materials, such foreign red, foreign yellow, foreign green, and foreign white. Compared with the famille verte, the new palette fires at a lower temperature and has a wider color range. It also appears softer and gentler, hence its other name 'soft colors' (ruan cai). During the Yongzheng reign, famille rose wares reached their zenith, replacing the famille verte of the Kangxi reign and becoming the dominate palette in overglaze decoration. The decoration was painted not only on a white background, but also on such colored backgrounds as coral, red, light green, caramel, black, etc. During the Qianlong reign, new techniques continued to develop. As a departure from the earlier simple washing method, flower petals in rouge red were outlined. More colors began to appear as the background. The designs also grew increasingly complex, especially in the case of wares with a red or green phoenix tail design as the background (feng wei wen), which was fashionable in the late Qianlong and early Jiaqing period. As this new decorative technique used many imported materials, and it method of mixing pigments was also 'foreign', it acquired the name 'foreign colors' (yang cai) in the Qianlong reign. * The Eight Buddhist Emblems consist of the wheel, the conch, the canopy, the umbrella, the lotus flower, the vase, the fish, and the knot (sometimes one of these is replaced by the flaming pearl). Often, each of the emblems is combined with a lotus spray to form a design. They were introduced from the Tibetan Lamaist art in the Yuan dynasty and were popular decorative elements during the Ming and Qing. These emblems were impressed on Yuan Jingdezhen egg-white wares and Longqun celadons, and also on Ming sweet white wares of the Yongle reign. From the Xuande reign on, they were painted in an underglaze blue, in the five-color (wu cai) palette, in the contasting color (dou cai) technique and in yellow decoration on a green ground. During the Qianlong and Jiaqing reigns of the Qing dynasty, this design was painted in the famille rose palette and enamel decoration. The arrangement of the emblems had been random before the Yongle reign, when the order of the wheel, the conch, the canopy, the umbrella, the lotus flower, the fish, the vase, and the knot was established. During the Wanli reign to the Qing dynasty, the established order was the wheel, followed by the conch, the umbrella, the canopy, the lotus flower, the vase, the fish, and the knot. After the Qianlong reign, this order was not followed on some vessels. Wares with this design were all produced in Jingdezhen except for some fa hua glazed wares."},{"label":"Title","value":"A small eggshell-thin soft-contoured mallet vase"},{"label":"Rights","value":"Materials available through GettDigital encompass a wide range of works, many of which are in the public domain. However, some items may still be protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights. Users are responsible for determining the copyright status of materials and ensuring compliance with all applicable laws when reproducing or publishing these works. Items in our GettDigital Collections are for educational use. 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