LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER-SHAPED PORCELAIN VASE, China, Republic Period (1912-1949)

With a massive shape, it is magnificently painted in famille rose enamels. On the body between two bands, an upper one with floral motifs and a lower one of ruyi, it is painted with a continuous scene of children in a beautiful garden playing with double gourds from which clouds and characters emerge. The garden is composed of beautiful rocks, peach trees and pine trees on a stretch of water and a pagoda. On the neck, between a band of ruyi and one of stylised leaves, are intricate pink qilongs painted on a yellow background, as well as on the foot. On the sides are two beautiful red handles moulded in the shape of heads holding a ring in their mouths. In the centre of the light green base is the apocryphal square six-character sealing mark in iron red of the Qianlong Emperor.