A FAMILLE ROSE 'BUTTERFLY' VASE Guangxu mark and of the period

A FAMILLE ROSE 'BUTTERFLY' VASE
Guangxu mark and of the period
Of globular body and long flaring neck, a frieze of flowering foliage below the neck with a xi character on each side, a band of ruyi pattern at the mouth rim and a band of stylized lappets above the short straight foot, finely painted with butterflies on the neck and body, the da Qing Guangxu nian zhi mark written in standard script in iron-red.
15 1/2in (39cm) high
Footnotes:
光緒 《大清光緒年製》紅款 粉彩喜字百蝶長頸瓶

Provenance:
Chinese American Private Collection
Christie's New York, 9 December 2020, lot 149

來源：
美籍華人私人藏品
紐約佳士得，2020年12月9日，拍品編號149

Guangxu-marked vases of similar type are illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1983, p. 133, no. 140; H.A. Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, the Netherlands, 1977, pl. 104, and G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, London, 1987, p. 91, no. 126.

For a similar vase sold at auction see, Bonhams London, 16 May 2013, lot 50 and another Bonhams London, 12 May 20111, lot 372.