a rare carved cinnabar lacquer baluster vase Qing dynasty, 18th / 19th Century

of square section and baluster shape, the body finely carved with blade lappets, each enclosing archaistic dragons and animal-masks, below a shoulder of confronting qilong on each face, the curved neck with upright lappets, all against a triangle-diaper ground, the splayed foot encircled with a lappet and lotus flower border, apocryphal Qianlong mark to the base, wood reticulated stand, wood box (3)

There has been restoration to two opposing sides of the neck and shoulder, possibly where handles were originally placed. Two chips to the lacquer on one side of the interior mouth rim, the largest 1 /14 inches long. The base appears relacquered. Minor cracks, chips and retouching throughout.
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Compare a larger vase of similar shape and design, illustrated in Carved Lacquer in the collects ion of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1985, fig. 322. See also a pair of vases, with inscriptions translated as 'Imitating Antiquity' and dated 1784, in the British Museum, illustrated in Derek Clifford, Chinese Carved Lacquer, London, 1992, pl. 109, p. 135. A vase of comparable size to the present example, with handles and original lacquer stand, attributed to the Qianlong period, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26th April 2007, lot 938.