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Covered Baluster ("Madarin") Vase on "Rothschild" Stand (one of two)
26.260.1-2
On display

CERAMICS, OTHER
Vessel (Container)
Maker unknown
CHINA: Jingdezhen
1750-1770
Porcelain with famille rose enamels and gilding, gilded wood
H. 54 in.

This baluster vase depicts tree peonies, crab apple, and love-lies-bleeding in rockwork surrounded by a fence framed by lambrequins below and above cloud-collar medallions and blue ruyi. The neck is decorated flowers on blue-and-white scrolls; the cover topped with a lotus bud finial.

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973

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