A RARE MASSIVE FAMILLE ROSE SGRAFFIATO RUBY-GROUND 'HUNDRED BOYS' VASE, QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)

A RARE MASSIVE FAMILLE ROSE SGRAFFIATO RUBY-GROUND 'HUNDRED BOYS' VASE
QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)
The vase is finely decorated on either side with scenes of boys at play in a garden, enclosed within shaped panels decorated with bats and all reserved on a sgraffiato ruby-enameled ground interspersed with lotus and other leafy floral sprays between borders of ruyi heads above and key-fret below. The waisted neck is decorated with bats suspending chimes and lotus blossoms suspending endless knots and twin fish, and is flanked by a pair of molded kui-dragon handles.
30 1/8 in. (76.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Private collection, Europe.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

PROPERTY FROM THE LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN COLLECTION