A BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD
Pear-shaped with stylized floral sprigs on the slender neck and a continuous scene around the body of scholars conversing in a bamboo grove
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high
Lot Essay
The scene beginning and ending in wispy clouds, the porcelain painter's solution to the problem of copying a 2D painting or print onto a 3D, continuous surface.