A ROSE QUARTZ 'BOYS' VASE AND COVER Late Qing Dynasty...

Property from the Evaristo Caretti (1879-1955) Collection of Chinese Art, lots 25-43
A ROSE QUARTZ 'BOYS' VASE AND COVER
Late Qing Dynasty
Carved in relief around the body with a group of boys clambering on rockwork, the cover with a pair of seated smiling boys facing to the left, the stone of variegated rose-pink hue, hongmu stand.
20.2cm (8in) high. (2).

Footnotes

清晚期 粉晶童子紋瓶

Provenance: Evaristo Caretti (1879-1955), China and Italy, and thence by descent
Noted in a valuation conducted by Robert Kleiner in 1988, stating it was acquired in Beijing in 1929