A BLUE AND WHITE SLENDER BALUSTER VASE, ROLWAGEN TRANSITIONAL

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A BLUE AND WHITE SLENDER BALUSTER VASE, ROLWAGEN TRANSITIONAL

The elongated body painted in inky tones of blue with a narrative scene of a young military officer wearing a long pheasant feather in his headress standing before a tent surrounded by attendants, to one side stands a groom holding the tether of a horse flanked on the other side by two servants presenting trays of food, all below a band of foliate scroll incised on the high shoulder and a band of upright leaf tips on the narrow, trumpet-shaped mouth
16in. (40.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare a vase of this form also decorated with a figural scene but painted with tulips on the flaring neck, included in the exhibition, Interaction in Ceramics, Oriental Porcelain & Delftware, Urban Council, Hong Kong Museum of Art, January 6-February 15, 1984, Catalogue, no. 17