An oviform vase with flaring neck painted and gilt with a bearded scholar seated at a table holding a fan, a boy attendant offering him a tea bowl on a tray beside him, both figures seated on a terraced garden before a mountainous landscape within a foliate border, the reverse with a panel depicting a farmer beside a hut feeding birds perched on a table within a similar border, all on a flowerhead ground within bands of stylized ho-o and scrolling foliage to the foot and neck (minor hairline crack to rim) -- 15in. high.