Lot 225. A Chinese famille rose ‘Boys at play’ bottle vase, Qing Dynasty, Jiaqing mark and period (1796-1820), 26cm H. Estimate: £30,000.00 - £50,000.00 © Chiswick Auctions.

The ovoid body finely painted with a continuous scene of boys and attendants in a garden, set between pendant and upright -heads draping the shoulder and skirting the blue key-fret foot, all below a tall neck with an everted rim, painted on a yellow ground with floral scrolls, the shoulders set with twin stylised dragon handles in iron red and heightened in gilt, the interior and the underside glazed in turquoise, the base inscribed with a six-character Jiaqing mark in iron-red reserved on a white ground. 

Chiswick Auctions. Asian Art. 12 Nov 2018