A Chinese famille rose ‘dragon boat’ vase

Reference: ART1003703

The vase is decorate with two gilt and iron-red bat handles to the neck. The body is decorated with a continuous scene of boys in a dragon boat competition in a mountainous river landscape, all below a band of stiff leaves to the shoulder. The neck is decorated with a chime amongst lotus scrolls The interior and base are glazed turquoise, with an apocryphal Jiaqing mark in iron red.