Chinese porcelain famille rose, fencai, baluster vase, Yongzheng period, 1723-1735. Photo Marchant

of ovoid form with galleried rim and splayed foot, painted with a standing lady holding an empty basket over her shoulder, beside a fisherman carrying a basket and long pole over his shoulder and a seated fisherman drinking wine with his wife and child, in a fishing boat moored at a lakeside, with a large pink jacket drying in the wind, all amongst bamboo, rockwork and grass, the reverse with plantain, rockwork and leaves, beneath a censer and wrapped qin on the slender neck, the base and foot rim unglazed. 15 ⅛ inches, 38.5 cm high. Price on request

Provenance: From the collection of Professor and Mrs Robert de Strycker, Belgium.
Purchased from Salle des Ventes des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 29th February 1956.

Note: A similar vase is illustrated by Li Yihua in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, no. 42, p. 213, and again by Yang Xin in, Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, Vol. 39, no. 51, p. 61.