In the next Asian Art auction, Pandolfini will present an interesting and wide selection of materials and objects.
Among the works in porcelain, the most impressive object is certainly a monumental balustrade vase, finely decorated with brilliant enamels and the mark of the Qianlong period. Made with the doucai technique, that means "contrasting colours", its enamelled ovoidal body shows a landscape in which the "hundred boys" are celebrating the feast of spring with a long procession in the garden of the palace, surrounded by mountains and colourful clouds. Other precious works, significant for the quality of their material and their decorative finesse, are a Yongzheng plate decorated with butterflies flying over the flowers and a collection of sculptures representing the eight immortals.
As for hardstones, this sale includes an important spinach-green jade vase, with a globular body decorated with cranes and ideograms, also marked and of the Qianlong period, and a white jade Indian hilt, finely polished and sculpted in the shape of a horse’s head.
Last but not least, a rarity for the Italian market, a bronze table clock of Cantonese production, decorated on the sides with the eight auspicious symbols of Buddhism and embossed with four stylized dragons.
