A FINE LANTERN FAMILLE ROSE PLAYING BOYS VASE

Estimated Value:

3.000 € - 5.000 €

Result:

8.417 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, iron-red Jiaqing seal mark and period
H. 28,2 cm
The tall ovoid body is painted with a central section depicting boys in a pavilion garden beside a river landscape, painted in green, aubergine, green and yellow enamel, the scene bordered at the shoulder and tapering foot by a ruyi head border, The former rising to a waisted neck decorated with stylised lotus scrolls and wan symbols, the latter with smaller lotuses, all on a deep ruby ground, the short straight foot painted with ruby chrysanthemums against a blue vine design, the base and interior glazed turquoise.
Formerly from a German private collection, acquired before 2007
Cf. Qianlong vases with similar form and decoration, such as a vase with the Eight Immortals between a turquoise ground at the neck and foot in the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Collection of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 350, fig. 31; and a green-ground example depicting children at play in the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, published in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 320. and Christie's New York, 24 March 2023, , lot 1079 - Old restored breaks and overpaint

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