A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE

WANLI 1573-1620

The pear-shaped body painted with a continuous scene depicting officials and attendants in a garden pavilion, with birds amidst pine, prunus and bamboo representing the Three Friends of Winter to the tall neck, decorated in relief with six applied animal heads to the shoulder and moulded cylinders around the rim, all raised on a gently flaring foot, 38.5cm.