The central section is decorated with scholars and attendants beneath a tall pine tree in a garden. The shoulder is decorated with pendent shaped panels enclosing flower blossoms on leafy stems between auspicious emblems

Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, London, 12 September 1985, lot 387.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

Note: A smaller (51.6 cm. high) Wanli-marked vase with similar decoration of scholars and attendants between decorative borders is illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1991, no. 84.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 25 September 2020