A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE OVOID 'LADIES' VASE

KANGXI 1662-1722

Painted to the exterior with two large rectangular panels containing scenes of ladies engaged in daily life as onlookers gaze down at them from high walled pavilions, with vases and pots of blossoming flowers around the figures, the panels divided by scrolling morning glories, all above bands of lappets and roundels reserved on a ground of floral diaper, with an artemisia leaf mark to the base, together with a reticulated hardwood cover, 35cm. (2)

Cf. Sotheby's New York, 19th-20th March 2007, lot 775 for a related ovoid vase with a very similar design.