£42,500
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 640
Auction: 14 May 2021 at 11:00 BST
清嘉慶 粉彩百子閙春圖螭龍耳大瓶
supported on an everted foot, raised to a tapered cylindrical body, the elongated waisted neck terminating at an everted mouth, painted around the body with 'hundred boys' at play celebrating a spring day amidst a dramatic mountainous landscape within two ruyi-bands, enamelled richly on the neck with scrolling lotus and foliated tendrils against an apple-green ground, flanked by a pair of sinuous chi dragons detailed in blue, the base inscribed with a six-character Jiaqing mark in iron-red reserved on a turquoise ground
Provenance: private English collection