A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE

KANGXI 1662-1722

Depicting a figure bearing a hu tablet as he kneels before a seated dignitary, with his attendants spread throughout the pavilion, the reverse painted with swirling clouds and banana trees, with bands of ruyi-heads, key fret and other geometric patterns to the cylindrical neck and galleried rim, 44cm.

Provenance: previously an English private collection, London, acquired in the 1980s.

Cf. R Chen, Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghua Ci (Qing Dynasty Shunzhi and Kangxi Blue and White Porcelain), p.454, no.292 for a related vase in the collection of the Palace Museum.