A famille rose baluster vase and coverYongzhengFineley decorated around the exterior of the elegant baluster body with shaped panels enclosing various scenes of mountainous landscapes or flowers and birds, reserved on a black ground with meandering scrolls in green and blossoming flower-heads, all between ruby enamelled lappets further enclosing floral motifs, the similarly decorated domed cover surmounted by a lion-finial. 63.5cm (25in) high (2).注脚清雍正 粉彩開光花木山水蓋罐Provenance: Alfred Morrison CollectionRt.Hon. Lord Margadale of Islay Collection, T.D.Fonthill House, WiltshireChristie's London, 'The Morrison Collection of Chinese Porcelain', 18 October 1971, lot 27來源：Alfred Morrison放山居舊藏英國威爾特郡T.D.Fonthill House，Alfred Morrison後人Margadale勳爵舊藏倫敦佳士得，"Morrison家族珍藏中國瓷器專場"，1971年10月18日，拍品編號27The Fonthill Heirlooms remains one of the most important collection of imperial Qing porcelain and works of art formed by a European in the 19th century. It was originally collected by Alfred Morrison, the London-based Member of Parliament, who was an active purchaser during the last decades of the 19th century, when Chinese and Japanese art were both culturally very much at the forefront of aesthetic tastes as pioneered by artistic taste-formers like James Whistler and Oscar Wilde, and also available in rather larger quantities than previously. The Fonthill Heirlooms became particularly well-known because Alfred Morrison was apparently able to buy a substantial quantity of Chinese art from Lord Loch of Drylaw. Before ennoblement, Lord Loch had been an aide-de-camp of Lord Elgin, British Minister Plenipotentiary in charge of the Western military campaign in China which culminated in the sacking of the Summer Palace in 1860. It appears that Mr Morrison bought, still packed in the original campaign chests, the mementoes which Lord Loch had brought back from Beijing. However, it is unclear how much of the Fonthill Heirlooms formed part of this purchase traceable directly back to the sacking, and how much was subsequently acquired by Mr Morrison from London antique dealers emerging into leading taste creators around the new antique dealing areas of Belgravia, Mayfair and Bond Street.A very similar pair of famille rose baluster vases and covers, Yongzheng, with the same motif and design, formerly in the collection of Lord Granard, is illustrated by G.C.Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, Tokyo, 1970, pl.LIV.