Dimensions: Width: 23cm, Height: 40cm

Chinese Qing Dynasty Guangxu Bai Butterfly Porcelain Bottle Vase. The porcelain potted in vase shape, thick and tall, globular lower body, straight round neck, close mouth rim, raised on a short ring foot base with slight concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against famille rose design color, depicted of hundred flying butterfly covered the surface with vivid tone color. Butterfly considered in China as also a bird. Symbol of conjugal bliss, of joy and of summer. From its homophony with the Chinese word die meaning the age of seventy or eighty, it is also an emblem of longevity. In Straits Chinese porcelain specifically, a pair of butterflies symbolizes the spirits of the forefathers. A butterfly or bird approaching a peony, a young man and the woman he loves.The Under-base bears a reign mark, a six under glazed red script characters reign mark. Made in The Years Guangxu Reign Period of The Great Qing Dynasty.

In fair condition over all. There is a chip on the rim and a crack that extends inward.
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