A Chinese famille rose vase, of ovoid form on a circular splayed foot with a flared rim, painted with a hundred boys at play in a continuous landscape, the neck with two confronting catfish attached to a ribboned qing (chime) tied to a ji (polearm) amongst scrolling lotus against a yellow ground, six-character Jiaqing mark, 49cm high The combination of a chime (qing, homophonous to celebration) hanging on the polearm (ji, homophonous to auspicious), together with a pair of catfish forms the pun Ji Qing You Yu which means Abundance of Auspiciousness and Celebrations. 粉彩百子图吉庆有余纹撇口瓶 《大清嘉庆年制》矾红篆书款
A Chinese famille rose vase, of ovoid form on a circular splayed foot with a flared rim, painted with a hundred boys at play in a continuous landscape, the neck with two confronting catfish attached to a ribboned qing (chime) tied to a ji (polearm) amongst scrolling lotus against a yellow ground, six-character Jiaqing mark, 49cm high The combination of a chime (qing, homophonous to celebration) hanging on the polearm (ji, homophonous to auspicious), together with a pair of catfish forms the pun Ji Qing You Yu which means Abundance of Auspiciousness and Celebrations. 粉彩百子图吉庆有余纹撇口瓶 《大清嘉庆年制》矾红篆书款
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