TWO FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN BOTTLES, 19TH CENTURY, one mallet-shaped, the other cylindrical, the first delicately painted with two blue-robed figures pushing a cart filled with vessels whilst a dream plume rises above each of their heads issuing a scene of two dragons amidst clouds, an equestrian figure with a lance bears down on them, with an unusual blue-enameled scene on the base of two chicks and a vase with three halberds, unobtrusive firing lines to foot; the second painted with a similar subject, stoppers (2) | Christie's

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TWO FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN BOTTLES, 19TH CENTURY, one mallet-shaped, the other cylindrical, the first delicately painted with two blue-robed figures pushing a cart filled with vessels whilst a dream plume rises above each of their heads issuing a scene of two dragons amidst clouds, an equestrian figure with a lance bears down on them, with an unusual blue-enameled scene on the base of two chicks and a vase with three halberds, unobtrusive firing lines to foot; the second painted with a similar subject, stoppers (2)

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TWO FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN BOTTLES, 19TH CENTURY, one mallet-shaped, the other cylindrical, the first delicately painted with two blue-robed figures pushing a cart filled with vessels whilst a dream plume rises above each of their heads issuing a scene of two dragons amidst clouds, an equestrian figure with a lance bears down on them, with an unusual blue-enameled scene on the base of two chicks and a vase with three halberds, unobtrusive firing lines to foot; the second painted with a similar subject, stoppers (2)

Lot Essay

The unusual scene painted on the foot of the first bottle can form the rebus, pingsheng sanji, "may you rise three steps in rapid succession"

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