Fine Chinese Works of Art - 13th November 2018

Lot 227

A MASSIVE CHINESE WUCAI JARDINIERE EARLY 19TH CENTURY With an ovoid body painted in enamels

Estimate £5,000 - £7,000

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Description

A MASSIVE CHINESE WUCAI JARDINIERE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

With an ovoid body painted in enamels, gilt and underglaze blue with figures of Immortals, scholars and their assistants in a landscape enjoying tea, appreciating scrolls and travelling on horseback, the shoulder with a key fret band and the rim with floral panels on a diaper ground, the top of the rim with birds, insects, fruit and flower sprays, 53.5cm.

Provenance: formerly from a private English collection, Oxfordshire.