Chinese Export Very Tall Famille Rose Hexagonal Covered Vase

Chinese Export Famille Rose hexagonal vase and cover from Qianlong 乾隆 period.

• Decorated on each side with shaped panels in enamels and gilt.
• Each panel depicts leisure lifestyle of noble family in a garden setting by a pavilion.
• The sides of the neck are decorated with boy playing in garden and the base with birds in garden within gilt foliate scrolls.
• Cover is decorated and surmounted by a Buddhist lion gilt finial.
• Raised on a hexagonal metal base.