A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE LIME-GREEN-GROUND 'HUNDRED BOYS' VASE, QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE LIME-GREEN-GROUND 'HUNDRED BOYS' VASE
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The vase is decorated in bright enamels with a continuous scene of the 'Hundred Boys' celebrating the Sping Festival in extensive lakeside gardens with pavilions, pine trees and rocks, and mountains in the distance. The animated scene includes children performing a dragon dance, blowing trumpets, banging cymbals, playing with animal puppets, carrying lanterns and lighting fire-crackers. The neck is applied with twin stylised dragon handles and is decorated with lotus sprays, bats and fish on a lime-green ground. Further decorative bands embellish the mouth rim, shoulders and base and the interior is enamelled turquoise.
28 ¾ in. (73 cm.) high
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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE LIME-GREEN-GROUND 'HUNDRED BOYS' VASE
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The vase is decorated in bright enamels with a continuous scene of the 'Hundred Boys' celebrating the Sping Festival in extensive lakeside gardens with pavilions, pine trees and rocks, and mountains in the distance. The animated scene includes children performing a dragon dance, blowing trumpets, banging cymbals, playing with animal puppets, carrying lanterns and lighting fire-crackers. The neck is applied with twin stylised dragon handles and is decorated with lotus sprays, bats and fish on a lime-green ground. Further decorative bands embellish the mouth rim, shoulders and base and the interior is enamelled turquoise.
28 ¾ in. (73 cm.) high
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