A blue and white bottle vase, Transitional period, ca. 1635-1640 © Christie's Image 2003

Well painted with a processional scene between narrow decorative bands below three stylized tulips on the tall neck - 14¾in. (37.5cm.) high. Lot 305. Estimate $5,000 - $8,000. Price Realized $8,963 

Property from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Breece III

Notes: Compare the bottle vase of similar form and type and dated as Ming, high Transitional, illustrated by Sir Michael Butler, et al., Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990, p. 81, no. 40. 

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 September 2003, New York, Rockefeller Plaza