A CHINESE CELADON-GROUND 'HUNDRED ANTIQUES' BALUSTER VASE

KANGXI 1662-1722

Painted with four large medallions in underglaze blue, two contain precious objects including archaic vessels, furniture and scholars' objects, the others enclose insects in flight amidst blossoming flowers and rockwork, the panels reserved on a pale green ground engraved with dragons amongst peony flowerheads, together with a pierced wood cover, 33cm. (2)