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九 9. A Chinese porcelain blue and white small cylindrical sleeve vase, rolwagen,

painted with a standing official holding a hu tablet, attended to by two boys,
青 one presenting a jue, all within a continuous landscape scene with palm trees,
花 plantain, ‘v’-shaped grass and rockwork, beneath the moon amongst clouds,
加
官 with birds in flight, all between anhua scrolling bands, the gently waisted neck
進 painted with branches of bamboo, orchid and prunus.
爵 9 ¾ inches, 24.8 cm high.

圖 Transitional, Chongzhen, circa 1640.

筒
瓶 • Sold by Christies London in their auction of Fine Chinese Export Porcelain

and Paintings, 5-6th July 1984, no. 130, purchased by Marchant.

明 • Sold by Marchant, 27th February 1985.
崇 • A similar sleeve vase, with a lady and two boys, in The Gugong Museum
禎 Collection, Beijing, is illustrated Chen Run Min in Qing Dynasty Porcelain

and Underglaze Blue of The Shunzhi and Kangxi Periods, no. 41, pp. 80/1.

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