A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND GOURD-SHAPED 'BUTTERFLIES' VASE, BAOFUPING

LATE QING DYNASTY/REPUBLIC PERIOD

Finely painted to the exterior with many butterflies in flight, decorated in relief with a ribbon detailed with gilt medallions tied around the body, all reserved on a pale lemon-yellow sgraffito ground incised with flowers, all raised on a moulded base decorated with ruyi-heads, the interior and base glazed turquoise, with a four character iron-red Qianlong mark to the base, 31.7cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, Cornwall.