Lot 74. A large Chinese blue and white sleeve vase, Transitional period, c. 1640, 50cm. Estimate: £5,000 - 8,000. Hammer Price £ 10,000. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis

The cylindrical body painted with a scene of a warrior receiving offerings, attended by two banner men in a landscape with elaborate rockwork and with a horse and groom beside a cliff face to the reverse. The neck and foot finely incised with double anhua lines and with lappets to the rim, mounted on a later gilt metal footm.

Cf. C Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.78, no.66 for a related vase.

Woolley & Wallis. Asian Art Works I. 16 May 2017