A MASSIVE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'LANDSCAPE' VASE

19TH CENTURY

The cylindrical body painted with bucolic scenes of pagodas and huts in a vast landscape, depicting figures tending the fields and herding animals, with a scaly dragon in mist coiled around the neck, and archaistic scrollwork to the shoulder and the foot, with a band of ruyi-heads around the wide rim, 92cm.