A SMALL CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE OVOID VASE 20TH CENTURY Brightly painted with a fisherman chasing a...

A SMALL CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE OVOID VASE

20TH CENTURY

Brightly painted with a fisherman chasing a snipe, the bird struggling to open a large clam, the base with a hall mark which reads de ren tang zhi, 20.5cm.

This subject is taken from Zhanguo ce (Legends of the Warring States), which represents the idiom 'profit reaped by a third party'.