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Size: H44.5cm

Signed and dated: Chongzhen period，（1628-1646 AD）

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 580,000

PROVENANCE
• Sold by Sotheby’s New York，7th December 1983，Lot 339
• Sold by Sotheby’s London，16th July 1985，Lot 42
• Formerly in an English private collection
• The S Marchant & Son，no.M2937
Exhibited
• Marchant in exhibition of Imperial Chinese Porcelain Ceramics & Works of Art，2013，no. 8

A blue and white cylindrical sleeve vase，rolwagen，painted in a continuous scene with vases containing flowering plants including a slender tall baluster with camellia and prunus； a large jardiniere with lotus flowers，leaves and arrow heads in water； a slender pear shaped vase with magnolia； a crackled tripod censer with peony； a blue-ground baluster vase with tree peony and a square jardiniere with chrysanthemum，amongst V-shaped grass，rockwork and banana plant，with insects in flight，all beneath the moon and between anhua lines，the slightly flared neck with stylised leaves，the flat base imglazed revealing the white biscuit body.