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A FINE AND SUPERB YANGCAI YELLOW-
GROUND ‘BOYS’ VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF
THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The ovoid body is exquisitely decorated in bright enamels with a continuous
scene of the ‘Hundred Boys’ celebrating the Spring festival, the children depicted
in animated groups performing a lion dance, playing with dragon and phoenix
puppets, playing music from drums, cymbals and horn, lighting a firecracker and
carrying auspicious emblems, the festivities set within two gardens separated by a
flowing river and linked by bridges, all between a trefoil border at the shoulder and
overlapping lappets around the base, above the floral band around the foot, the
waisted neck enamelled with a stylised lotus scroll and upright lappets on a yellow
sgraffito ground, flanked by a pair of gilt and iron-red dragon handles, with classic
scrolls around the foot and mouth rims.
15 ¼ in. (38.8 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
HK$50,000,000-80,000,000 US$6,500,000-10,000,000
PROVENANCE
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1 November 1999, lot 399
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 641

清乾隆 瓷胎洋彩黃地錦上添花蓮紋長春百子圖雙龍耳瓶
礬紅六字篆書款

來源
香港蘇富比，1999年11月1日，拍品399號
香港佳士得，2003年10月27日，拍品641號

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