*A large Chinese blue and white sleeve vase c.1640

£20,000 - £30,000

*A large Chinese blue and white sleeve vase c.1640, brightly painted with a figure on horseback and six bannermen in a rocky landscape, with pine, bamboo and plantain, the waisted neck with a stiff leaf border, a filled drill hole to the base, 44.4cm. Cf. C. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.78, no.66 for a related example.