A fine powder-blue-glazed and gilt rouleau vase - Kangxi

Unusually gilt in Chinese taste on the richly mottled blue body with two poems contained in roundels, each with a seal, above a matching roundel of a solitary boatman at a river bank, dividing large clusters of blossoming prunus and chrysanthemum (gilding slightly rubbed). 48cm (19in) high. Estimate: £6,000 - 10,000  - Unsold.

Bonhams. Fine Asian Art, 6 Nov 2006. New Bond Street