Daoguang seal mark and of the period The ovoid body finely enamelled with an older boy clothed in a rose-enamelled robe and wearing a gold official's cap, holding aloft a large golden helmet above his head as four younger boys leap excitedly to reach for it, all set within a scene of rockwork and pines continuing onto the reverse decorated with a flowering pomegranate branch laden with two heavy fruit bursting open and one unripe fruit, all beneath turquoise-ground ruyi-head borders containing double-seeded lotus scrolls enclosing four bats at the neck and simple lotus scrolls at the foot, the interior and underside glazed in turquoise. 19.1cm (7 1/2in) high.