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An impressive 'Famille-Rose' 'Hundred Boys' vase, Qing Dynasty,…
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Melbourne
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5-Apr-2011
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An impressive 'Famille-Rose' 'Hundred Boys' vase, Qing Dynasty, Jiaqing period, the ovoid body with tall trumpet neck, set with two stylized dragon handles picked out in blue enamel below the galleried rim encircled with a ruyi-head border repeated around the base, the sides finely decorated in relief and painted in bright enamels with numerous boys in a festival procession, some carrying banners on poles, including phoenix, fish, deer, and an elephant, others with a large dragon, Buddhist lions, and qilin, and several with lanterns, two lanterns inscribed in gilding wugu fengdeng (an abundant harvest of all grains), other groups of boys playing musical instruments, in a continuous walled garden with a pavilion beside entwined pine trees and a banana palm growing from rockwork, the branches extending onto the neck, and with two red bats in flight above, the interior glazed in turquoise 87 cm
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Oriental: Ceramics - Chinese