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A fine porcelain rouleau vase, standing on a ring foot, painted in gilt on a powder-blue ground with two circular panels of birds in various flowering and fruiting trees, and with two further circular panels containing poems, all reserved on a dense scrolling floral ground. The shoulders, neck and mouth rim are painted with bands of flowerheads and scrolling. The base is glazed white leaving the foot rim unglazed.
Kangxi period
Height: 17 1/2”, 44.5 cm
For a very similar example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with a poem dated 1709, see Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, no. 243, pp. 240-1; and for further examples, see Arapova, Chinese Porcelains in the Hermitage Collection, no. VIII; and Wang, Kangxi Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai Museum Collection, no. 200, pp. 308-9.
