138 - IRON-RED PORCELAIN VASE, China, Qing Dynasty, late 19th century

IRON-RED PORCELAIN VASE, China, Qing Dynasty, late 19th century Globular in shape, decorated with bats holding musical stones surrounded by flowers and leafy scrollwork; the shoulder adorned with a ruyi frieze; the interior and base glazed turquoise; apocryphal Qianlong mark on the base; enamel chipping along the neck rim and a slight crack on the neck H.: 21 cm (8 ¼ in.) An iron-red glazed jar, China, Qing dynasty, late 19th century Qing Dynasty, late 19th century, iron-red glazed jar with intertwined floral and “Fu-Shou” motifs Source: Collection of the Société Industrielle de Mulhouse, France, assembled in the late 19th–early 20th centuries. Provenance: Private collection of the Société Industrielle de Mulhouse for over a century.