A large famille-rose ‘three rams’ vase Qing dynasty, Jiaqing-Daoguang period | 清乾隆至嘉慶 紫地粉彩三羊啓泰雙螭龍耳大瓶

A large famille-rose ‘three rams’ vase

Qing dynasty, Jiaqing-Daoguang period

with ovoid body sweeping up to a waisted neck and flared rim, flanked by a pair of iron red dragon handles, decorated around the body in soft enamels with a continuous scene of three goats in a meadow beneath overhanging trees, amidst peonies, asters and nandinia berries, all between two borders of ruby-ground ruyi encircling the shoulder and base, the neck with large lotus wreathed in scrolling foliage on a ruby-red ground between yellow upright leaves and turquoise ruyi at the rim, the base with an apocryphal iron-red Qianlong mark

H. 71.4 cm, 28⅛ in.

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Grand vase en porcelaine de la famille rose à décor de trois béliers, dynastie Qing, époque Jiaqing-Daoguang

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清乾隆至嘉慶 紫地粉彩三羊啓泰雙螭龍耳大瓶