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Modern Multicolored Applique Guanyin Vase in Blue Glaze with Phoenix and Peony Patterns - CIMB-CAP-2203-006

Modern Multicolored Applique Guanyin Vase in Blue Glaze with Phoenix and Peony Patterns - CIMB-CAP-2203-006

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Size: 24.2cm (Width) 24.1cm (Depth) 48cm (Height)
Created date: Feb 23, 2026
Collection: Bronze Collection
Description

DIMENSIONS: 24.2cm (Width) 24.1cm (Depth) 48cm (Height)

The phoenix and the peony are popular among the public, attributable to their auspicious connotations, such as happiness and hope. Consequently, the folk has produced diverse models and endowed varied implied meanings for them. In contemporary folk embroidery, phoenix-and-peony patterns are combined, rather than distinguished, to imply auspiciousness, beauty and fortune.

This ceramic vase has a slightly flared mouth, thin neck, long body and rounded foot. Its upper body is drum-like, and its lower body is tapered. Its shape is similar to the vase on the hand of Guanyin, thus the name.

In terms of the ceramic process, first, the “china clay” is formed into a desired “shape.” The next processes include model design, replication, burning, decoration (painting) and decorative firing. Sophisticated yet meticulous coloring techniques are required, generally including outlining, uncovering, painting, filling, washing, scrabbling and brushing. The carving is enriched due to the wide application of such techniques. The objects represented are vivid and lifelike. Ceramic carving is a stereographic art expressing images. No matter figures or animals, decorative or functional ceramics, images convey theme, personality and scenario. Ceramic carving, through specific matching, can be unique and can add the touch that brings a work of art to life. In this sense, a good carved model is inseparable from perfect colored decoration. In other words, colored decoration is expected to “add brilliance” to the “model” so as to set off “form” and “spirit” and thus make the “model” more beautiful, more lavish and more outstanding. Contrastingly, colored decoration in excess might destroy the model. Therefore, colored decoration must co-adapt with the model so as to bring out the best artistic effect of carving.

Guanyin Vase, also known as “Guanyin Zun,” was one of the vase models popular during the period from the Kangxi to Qianlong reigns of the Qing dynasty. Such vase has a wide flared mouth, short neck and broad shoulders. The body, long and smooth, shrinks till the foot that is shallow, round and open. This type of vase was generally produced in Jingdezhen during the Kangxi reign. Sometimes, it is not easy to distinguish between vase and Zun. Generally, a vessel with a small mouth and big body is called a vase. Multicolored and blue-and-white are common. The outer wall of this vase is decorated with multicolored flowers on a ground of blue with phoenix tail-like fine lines. The lower body is in the turquoise glaze. The fine and lustrous glaze and the beautiful and tall model imply the strict and classic requirements for lines during the Qing dynasty. The line of ceramic work was meticulously designed inch by inch to obtain impeccable smoothness and elegance. The perfect line sets off the enchanting and graceful painting. The complementary phoenix and peonies demonstrate natural beauty, fascination and superb painting techniques. This feast for the eyes, through the glamorous artistic conception, represents the pursuit of auspiciousness, beauty and fortune.

Market price: USD13,000-25,900


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