VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A PAIR OF LARGE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE VASES
JIAQING/DAOGUANG
Details
A PAIR OF LARGE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE VASES
jiaqing/daoguang
Each enamelled on one side of the bulbous body with a large panel enclosing an audience scene, a dignitary seated at a table attended by fan-bearers, scholars, male and female attendants, and on the other side with his consort seated on a terrace with similar attendant figures, all within gilt key-fret surrounds and divided by smaller fan-shaped panels, the tall cylindrical neck with two smaller panels divided by applied gilt Buddhistic lion cub handles and the shoulder applied with two pairs of kui dragons, all reserved on a ground of bats, butterflies, emblems, flowering and fruiting sprays below the everted scalloped rim
24in. (61cm.) high (2)
jiaqing/daoguang
Each enamelled on one side of the bulbous body with a large panel enclosing an audience scene, a dignitary seated at a table attended by fan-bearers, scholars, male and female attendants, and on the other side with his consort seated on a terrace with similar attendant figures, all within gilt key-fret surrounds and divided by smaller fan-shaped panels, the tall cylindrical neck with two smaller panels divided by applied gilt Buddhistic lion cub handles and the shoulder applied with two pairs of kui dragons, all reserved on a ground of bats, butterflies, emblems, flowering and fruiting sprays below the everted scalloped rim
24in. (61cm.) high (2)