A RARE LIME GREEN GROUND FAMILLE ROSE ’THREE RAMS’ VASE, PERIOD: DAOGUANG – QING DYNASTY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

SIZE: H178 X D68

The ovoid body resting on a short spreading foot, surmounted by a waisted neck flanked by a pair of iron-red enameled and gilt archaistic phoenix handles, finely painted in brilliant famille-rose enamels on the gently rounded sides with three rams set in a landscape of blossoming berries, rose bushes and leafy trees between bands of ruyi heads enclosing floral sprays, the neck with stylised lotus blossoms borne on a meandering leafy scroll with bats and sanduo sprays reserved against a lime-green ground, between a band of ruyi heads and upright plantain leaves, the lipped rim and foot encircled with a band of flower heads against a ground of swirls, inscribed to the base with a six-character mark of the period, 大清道光年制

Available at Ming Fine Arts Galleries, Straits Quay and St Jo’s Gurney Paragon Mall