CHINA - QIANLONG Period (1736-1795). Small four-sided... Lot 9

CHINA - QIANLONG Period (1736-1795). Small four-sided GRANADA-shaped VASE made of polychrome and gold enamelled porcelain of the rose family known as "fencai", on each side of a round medallion decorated with a couple of quails on rocks flowered with peonies; another couple of quails among celestial bamboos and flowering plum trees; another couple of magpies on a rock flowered with peach blossoms; another couple of magpies among cherry blossoms and lingzhi. The background is decorated with lotus flowers in rose family enamels among their foliage against a background of gold-flowered foliage scrolls. The shoulder decorated with a frieze of lingzhi decorated with scrolls. The lower part decorated with a frieze of banana leaves and lingzhi. The heel is embellished with a frieze of stylised flowers in their foliage in gold enamel on a coral-red background. The inside and underside are enamelled in turquoise blue. On the back of the base, the six-character Qianlong mark in iron red in zhuanshu. Height. 20.4 Width of the neck. 9.9 cm. (gold wear). Provenance: - probably offered at the wedding, on October 9, 1930, of Jean Richard (1905-1935) and Marie-Louise Thomassin (1906-1990), in the cathedral Saint-Louis des Invalides in Paris. Son of General Charles Édouard Richard (1868-1928), a polytechnicien, and grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Lecer (1839-1915), officer of the Legion of Honour, the groom married the daughter of a captain of the French army who died in the field of honour, Constant Charles Thomassin (1875-1914). - by descent, private collection, Tours. China - Qianlong period (1736-1795). A fine 'Famille Rose' (Fencai) and gold-glazed 'pomegranate' vase Qianlong seal mark and period. References: - another vase, double, decorated with the same subject in medallions, reproduced in Stunning decorative porcelains of the Qianlong reign, National Palace Museum, 2008, p. 88, another with the same background p. 126; - two vases, one baluster, the other suantouping