A Famille Rose Porcelain ’Buddhist Lion’ Bottle Vase

A Famille Rose Porcelain ’Buddhist Lion’ Bottle Vase The globular body rising from a short foot to a tall cylindrical neck, decorated in famille rose enamels with a Buddhist lion father playing ball with his cub among ribbons of flame in iron-red, all above a chrysanthemum border encircling the foot, a diaper and bloom border around the rim, the glazed recessed base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double circle in underglaze blue. Period: 19th century. Height: 41.5 cm. Proveniens Sven-Olof Landren (1917‑1981), director at the Swedish company SKF. Thence by descent within the family.