A pear-shaped body and slender neck swelling into a bulb below the lip, decorated in famille rose enamels and gold with figures from the Wu Shuang Pu (Peerless Historical Figures). Height 14 cm.
Wear to gilding. Very small cracks to rims.
Property of a private Swedish collector.
Decorated to show famous men and women from China’s past with inscriptions. The figures are from Wu Shuang Pu (Peerless Historical Figures), which was published in AD1694, depicting 40 famous people.