A FINE BLUE AND WHITE FIVE-PIECE GARNITURE comprising three baluster vases and covers and two gu-shaped beaker vases, the baluster vases each painted with four panels variously depicting figures punting boats in a riverscape before pavilions, mounted horsemen, and scholars at leisure on bridges, all reserved on a scrolling vine ground above floral lappets at the flaring foot, the shoulder with ruyi cartouches on a whorl-pattern ground, the tall necks similarly decorated and the high domed covers surmounted by knop finials, the beaker vases similarly painted with panels of figures in riverscapes reserved on vine and whorl-pattern grounds (one beaker vase and two covers with rim restoration, one baluster vase with restoration to luting line), Kangxi

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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE FIVE-PIECE GARNITURE comprising three baluster vases and covers and two gu-shaped beaker vases, the baluster vases each painted with four panels variously depicting figures punting boats in a riverscape before pavilions, mounted horsemen, and scholars at leisure on bridges, all reserved on a scrolling vine ground above floral lappets at the flaring foot, the shoulder with ruyi cartouches on a whorl-pattern ground, the tall necks similarly decorated and the high domed covers surmounted by knop finials, the beaker vases similarly painted with panels of figures in riverscapes reserved on vine and whorl-pattern grounds (one beaker vase and two covers with rim restoration, one baluster vase with restoration to luting line), Kangxi
the baluster vases 56cm., the beaker vases 50cm. high (5)

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