A CHINESE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE 'HISTORICAL FIGURES' VASE

A CHINESE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE 'HISTORICAL FIGURES' VASE

19TH CENTURY

Brightly painted with enamels and gilt, with characters from the Wu Shuang Pu, interspersed with flowers, butterflies and precious objects, between gilt-ground borders of flowers and butterflies encircling the foot and a petal-lobed rim, with applied chilong and mythical creatures to the shoulder and waisted neck, 44.2cm.