£1,500
Auction: 16 March 2022 at 10:00 GMT
清 乾隆款 粉彩錦地描金龍紋膽瓶
the ovoid body extending to an elegant long neck with slightly everted mouth rim, the body delicately painted with three sinuous chi-dragons amidst lingzhi fungus against a gilded brocade-pattern ground, the neck similarly adorned with a dragon, the shoulder decorated with a band of feather-like tendrils against a blue ground, the base inscribed with a six-character Qianlong mark in iron-red
Provenance: Private English collection, acquired from an antique shop in Singapore in 1980s; with a circular paper label 'Wain Antiques, No. 5' attached to the base