Gourd Boy

Jingdezhen, 1860-1920
Height 4.3 cm; mouth/lip: .31/.71 cm
Stopper: Jadeite

Provenance:
Jacqueline Wibail
Robert Hall 2002
Franz Collection, Hong Kong

Published:
FranzArt "Chinese Art from the Hedda and Lutz Franz Collection", Volume Four - Fire, 2014 p. 76 & 165

 

Famille rose enamels on glaze on porcelain; in the form of a squatting boy clutching a double-gourd, the gourd forming the bottle and with a flat lip; the gourd enamelled in yellow its base inscribed in iron-red seal script Qianlong nian zhi (‘Made in the Qianlong period’), the boy with blue, floral trousers and a gilt-decorated, iron-red jacket.

Alexander Whittaker