Lot 224
WUCAI OVOID VASE
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 13 May 2022 at 11:00 BST
£875
Description
清 五彩西廂記人物故事圖橢圓形瓶
of flattened form, the four-lobed body finely painted in cartouches with scenes in the Romance of the Western Chamber, where the female protagonist Cui Yinyin, accompanied by her servant girl Hong Niang, visiting her lover Zhang Sheng studying in a pavilion in a garden setting, the narrower lobes painted with merchants and officers in stylised roundels, the neck similarly decorated, all against a flower-and-butterfly ground
Dimensions
42.5cm high