A CHINESE CARVED HU-FORM VASE, QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

Reference: ART1008639

A Chinese Porcelain vase of archaistic hu form, the generously rounded sides sweeping up to a tapering neck flanked by a pair of iron-red handles modelled in the form of dragons, engraved around the body depicting a continuous scene of cranes frolicking in grassy meadows and beside a river, all within a rocky, mountainous landscape with pine trees, set between a band of ruyi heads and a petal lappet border. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark.
Height: 44 cm.