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Each vase is decorated with two turquoise-ground gilt-decorated archaistic dragon handles. The bodies are decorated in mirror image with scattered characters from the Wu Shuang Pu,
the “Table of Peerless Heroes”. Each fgure is accompanied with a title and panels shaped
as auspicious objects enclosing inscriptions identifying the characters. The rim and the foot are decorated with a foral squared-scroll band.
51 in. (129.5 cm.) high(2)
£40,000-60,000
The descriptive texts on the vase are taken from the woodblock printed manual Wu shuang pu compiled by Jin Gu Liang during the mid-17th century. The manual describes forty unique (and hence peerless) heroes from the Han to Song dynasties.
Compare with a pair of large ‘Wu Shuang Pu’ vases with dragon borders sold at Christie’s South Kensington, 11 November 2015, lot 723.
A similar vase with the same border as the current lot, however without handles, was sold at Christie’s London, 10 May 2011, lot 320.
清十九世紀 粉彩描金無雙譜大瓶一對