A FINE 'FAMILLE-VERTE' ROULEAU VASE QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

the slightly swelling cylindrical body finely and brightly enamelled around the exterior with a continuous court scene, depicting an elegant lady seated on the first floor of a pavillion looking down at a young man seated in a garden surrounded by standing figures, all below a band at the angled shoulder of four quatrefoil panels enclosing 'Precious Objects' reserved on a diaper ground, a landscape scene of boys at play encircling the ribbed cylindrical neck, the everted waisted rim with a scroll band

A Kangxi vase of this form painted with a figure scene was included in the Hong Kong Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1977, cat.no. 25; another vase decorated with court ladies, from the H.M. Knight collection, was sold in these rooms, 5th March 1974, lot 155, and again in our New York rooms, 23rd October 1976, lot 291.

Compare also a vase from the Ho Chun Lee and T.Y. Chao collections, included in the exhibitions Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 1908, and Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1978, cat.no. 67, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 18th November 1986, lot 124. Another vase painted with ladies pursuing leisurely activities, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 132.