DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

Details

A FAMILLE ROSE 'BOYS' VASE
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
The ovoid body is finely decorated with a procession of fifteen animated boys, variously pulling a playmate on a peach-filled wheeled boat, raising tasseled precious objects, carrying a wrapped qin, reed pipes, a lotus flower, books, a model of a deer, and two lifting a large peach on a pole across their shoulders, all between ruyi-head borders, and below the turquoise-ground neck decorated with two scrolling lotus sprays conjoined with the scrolling tendrils of two other flower sprays and incorporating wan characters.
13 3/8 in. (34 cm.) high

Lot Essay

The decoration on this vase and its arrangement is related to that of another famille rose vase of the same shape illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 39 - Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 219, pl. 194. The decoration on the ovoid body of the Palace vase is that of boys participating in a Dragon Boat race. See, also, a famille rose vase in the collection of the National Museum of China, similarly decorated with boys at play, with a ruby-ground neck, illustrated in Zhongguo guojia bowuguan guancang wenwu yanjiu congshu - ciqi jian - Qing dai, Shanghai, 2007, p. 207, no. 137.

More from Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art

View All