AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED 'MONKEY' VASE QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

the tapering ovoid body rising from a recessed base to a tall broad neck with a rolled rim, decorated around the sides with six playful monkeys hanging on different parts of a pine tree, one perched on a rocky outcrop below, the other side with a flowering tree growing next to a large rock with wasps in flight below a copper-red sun, the neck further decorated with bamboo and chrysanthemum among rocks below a band of key fret around the rim and diaper bands on the shoulder, the base with a later added inscription stating that the vase was purchased by Cheng Weishan in the gengshen year of the Xianfeng period (corresponding to 1860), engraved by Zeng Hongman

The vase is drilled to the base as it was formerly mounted as a lamp, and has quite a lot of wear to the surface. There are minute burst bubbles to the surface with associated dirt overall.
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