PROPERTY FROM A FLORIDA PRIVATE COLLECTION
A RARE MASSIVE FAMILLE ROSE SGRAFFIATO-GROUND VASE
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A RARE MASSIVE FAMILLE ROSE SGRAFFIATO-GROUND VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD
The broad ovoid body well potted and painted with a continuous scene of 'The Hundred Boys' engaged in various playful pursuits including carrying lanterns and puppets, banging gongs while traversing bridges and playing musical instruments including cymbals, horns and drums, set against a verdant landscape of pine and willow growing from well-painted blue rockwork divided by river estuaries, all set between a wide band of yellow ruyi heads below and a border of interlocking dragons and ruyi heads above, the waisted neck, shoulder and foot decorated with a floral sgraffiato ruby ground enriched with scrolling lotus and pendent tasseled musical stones, and applied with a pair of gilded S-form dragon handles below a yellow ground, the ruyi-form collar bordered in turquoise below a gilded rim, the interior and base glazed turquoise, handles restored--29in. (73.6cm.) high
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD
The broad ovoid body well potted and painted with a continuous scene of 'The Hundred Boys' engaged in various playful pursuits including carrying lanterns and puppets, banging gongs while traversing bridges and playing musical instruments including cymbals, horns and drums, set against a verdant landscape of pine and willow growing from well-painted blue rockwork divided by river estuaries, all set between a wide band of yellow ruyi heads below and a border of interlocking dragons and ruyi heads above, the waisted neck, shoulder and foot decorated with a floral sgraffiato ruby ground enriched with scrolling lotus and pendent tasseled musical stones, and applied with a pair of gilded S-form dragon handles below a yellow ground, the ruyi-form collar bordered in turquoise below a gilded rim, the interior and base glazed turquoise, handles restored--29in. (73.6cm.) high