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A CATALOGUE OF
No. 66
Cylindrical Vase, with sloping shoulder and attenuated and slightly flar-
ing neck (commonly known as club shape), of fine hard white porce-
lain, decorated in typical colors of the "famille verte" variety, with
iridescent qualities and much brilliancy.
The elaborate colored motive consists of a series of eleven pictorial subjects, arranged
in tiers and displaying Imperial personages and groups in various engagements, most
probably a representation of historical events, with landscape and interior settings, care-
fully and minutely executed upon the panels, that are disposed upon a green stippled
ground, that is enriched by a superposed painting of storks and blossoms in varied colors.
Two of the landscape panels, representing a mountainous region of China, are upon the
neck, which is finished by a "herring-bone" band at the rim in green, and a "scepter
head" or fungiformed border in yellow and green enamel surrounds the shoulder.
The white foot bears a blue ring and leaf-mark under the glaze.
The ensemble, its paste, quality of colors, and drawing, clearly indicate the K'ang-hsi
period (1662-1722).
Height, 18 inches.
Diameter, 7 inches.
