A SMALL CHINESE UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND RED OVOID VASE

REPUBLIC PERIOD

Painted with three oval panels to the exterior, one containing a mountainous landscape scene, another enclosing a beauty seated below bamboo in a garden, the third painted with a branch of flowering prunus, all divided by stylised sprays of flowerheads and foliage, a six character Qianlong mark to the base, 9cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, Sussex, acquired in the 1980s.