Description: An unusual famille-rose 'eight horses' vase Qing dynasty, 19th Century
of archaistic
hu form, set on the sloping shoulders with a pair of iron-red square-section handles with key-fret in relief, the sides painted with the eight horses brightly enamelled in pink, yellow, purple, white and brown, prancing and grazing in a continous grassy meadow with clusters of flowering plants, rockwork and cliffs rising to scrolling clouds to one side and an overhanging willow and another tree below the
ruyi-head and key-fret borders around the mouth, and a band of lappets at the base, wood stand
(2)
42 cm high
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired in Hong Kong circa 1960
Private Collection, Sydney, by descent from the above