A RARE RUBY-GROUND LANTERN VASE SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAQING the tall cylindrical body well painted with a group of Daoist immortals and their attendants playing touhu - tossing sticks into a vase - while standing in a balustraded garden overlooking a turbulent Eastern Sea, the sticks delivered by white cranes flying across the water towards a small cloud-shrouded isle with a pavilion housing a censer full of sticks, the attendants depicted holding a vase containing sticks and preparing a crane to fly, further behind another scholar and two attendants approach the group, the landscape filled with lush pines and trees, all between ruyi-head borders at foot and shoulder, the latter rising to a waisted neck, the ruby-enamelled ground contrasting with the bright enamels of the scrolling lotus motifs, with gilding at the rim and top of keyfret foot, the interior and base glazed turquoise, the base inscribed in red with a six-character reign mark reserved on a white ground 30 cm., 11 3/4 in.
A RARE RUBY-GROUND LANTERN VASE SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAQING the tall cylindrical body well painted with a group of Daoist immortals and their attendants playing touhu - tossing sticks into a vase - while standing in a balustraded garden overlooking a turbulent Eastern Sea, the sticks delivered by white cranes flying across the water towards a small cloud-shrouded isle with a pavilion housing a censer full of sticks, the attendants depicted holding a vase containing sticks and preparing a crane to fly, further behind another scholar and two attendants approach the group, the landscape filled with lush pines and trees, all between ruyi-head borders at foot and shoulder, the latter rising to a waisted neck, the ruby-enamelled ground contrasting with the bright enamels of the scrolling lotus motifs, with gilding at the rim and top of keyfret foot, the interior and base glazed turquoise, the base inscribed in red with a six-character reign mark reserved on a white ground 30 cm., 11 3/4 in.
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