Lot 185

FAMILLE ROSE 'DRAGON' BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG MARK BUT 19TH CENTURY




Auction: 16 March 2022 from 10:00 GMT
£1,500
Description
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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
Dimensions
29.5cm high
Provenance
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



