M5549

Chinese porcelain blue and white large beaker vase, of slender gu form, with flared rim and foot, painted with a young scholar meeting a senior official with his two attendants in a fenced scene beside a screen painted with a landscape, the entrance with a large stack of books on a table, all in a continuous landscape scene with bamboo, palm trees, rockwork, plantain and ‘classic’ v-shaped grass, beneath the moon with the wall of a building in the distance beneath clouds, all between anhua bands of triangular diaper, the unglazed base revealing the biscuit body. Chongzhen, Transitional, circa 1640. 17 inches, 43.3 cm high.