Kangxi period
Height: 28 3/4 in, 73 cm

the well-rounded sides rise from a spreading foot to a cylindrical neck and terminate in a widely flared rim. The vessel is finely painted in underglaze blue with shaped panels of flowers, including morning glory, aster and camellia, landscapes and The Hundred Antiques (bo gu), all reserved against a good powder-blue ground.

It is rare to find a porcelain vase of this shape and size in powder blue and particularly unusual to find one in such good condition.

A very similar vase is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (No. 14.40.423), Benjamin Altman Bequest, 1913.