Lot description
THIS IS A PREMIUM LOT. CLIENTS WHO WISH TO BID ON PREMIUM LOTS ARE REQUESTED TO COMPLETE THE PREMIUM LOT PRE-REGISTRATION 3 WORKING DAYS PRIOR TO THE SALE. each of well potted compressed globular form rising to a cylindrical neck flanked by a pair of archaistic scroll handles below a flared mouth, superbly painted in vivid and meticulous detail in 'famille-rose' enamels with two lobed panels depicting one hundred boys in different dragon boating scenes, one side with the red dragon boat leading the race, the other with the green boat ahead of the red, both scenes with boys cheering excitedly as they watch on, some performing a dragon dance, some carrying lanterns, banners and firecrackers, some riding hobby horses, and others playing drums and cymbals, the boys dressed in brightly coloured clothes, set amid elaborate pavilions and bridges, pine and paulownia trees, all reserved on a rich yellow ground decorated with leafy lotus scrolls, the neck with a bat suspending tasselled lanterns below pendant leaf lappets at the rim, the interior and base turquoise, with a central square on the base reserved in white for the iron-red six-character seal mark
