A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE YEN YEN VASE

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE YEN YEN VASE

19TH CENTURY

The body painted with a continuous scene of scholar-officials and attendants engaged in conversation, seated beneath a canopy surrounded by a wooded landscape, the neck with similar decoration, the scenes divided by a band of chevrons, with swirling clouds to the rim and craggy rocks to the base, 43.9cm.

Provenance: from a British private collection, formed 1970-2003.