A FINELY ENAMELLED FAMILLE ROSE 'HUNDRED BOYS' BOWL
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A FINELY ENAMELLED FAMILLE ROSE 'HUNDRED BOYS' BOWL

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A FINELY ENAMELLED FAMILLE ROSE 'HUNDRED BOYS' BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Finely enamelled around the exterior with a procession of young boys dressed in brightly coloured clothes, performing a dragon dance, playing drums and cymbals, gongs and trumpets, riding hobby horses, carrying lanterns and banners, and lighting fire crackers, the instruments and details picked out in gilt
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Cf. a Qianlong marked bowl of the same pattern sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 2 November 1999, lot 552.

The imagery of boys expresses the wish for the owner of the bowl to have numerous offspring, while the image of the boys playing with lanterns and lighting firecrackers may suggest that the scene here is of the Lantern Festival held on the 15th day of the lunar new year.

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