China 20th century Lady Vases. Mirroring Eggshell Chinese porcelain PROC period

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Condition Report: Overall condition Both perfect. Size 120mm high

A lovely scene with a lady reading a book in a garden. Nice overglaze red seal mark at the base.

Mirror-image decoration

While in the West pairs usually have identical or mirror-image designs the Chinese decorator rarely used absolute symmetry and preferred to produce designs that merely complemented each other. (For the Imperial Court, Rosemary E Scott, p 94).

From the production of the 18th century an increasing preference can be noted on the part of porcelain painters for drawing symmetrical designs on pairs of vases and bowls. Most ‘pairs’ (sic) of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong porcelains consists of two identical motifs. The closer they resemble each other the better they are. Hongxian pairs are often symmetrical pairs, which means that they are the opposite of each other, as if they were reflected in a mirror. Apparently simple, the two dimensional drawing and painting was hereby given a three dimensional relationship. It is an indication of an increased sense of composition. (H A van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Century, p. 114)

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