Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai, rouge de fer and gilt large vase of rouleau form, Kangxi period, 1662-1722. Photo Marchant

painted with two ladies seated at a square table playing weiqi, while a young gentleman sits and watches, a further lady leaning on pierced rocks watching over children playing at acrobatics, fishing and blind man’s bluff, all in an outdoor terrace scene beside a balcony with rockwork,wutong and pine, all beneath butterflies in flight, ruyi-form clouds and the sun, the high shoulder with reserves of leaves, lozenge, music stone and wheel tied with ribbons on a geometric flowerhead ground, the cylindrical flared neck with five boys at play, the base with a double ring in underglaze blue. 28 ⅛ inches, 71.5 cm high. Price on request

Provenance: From an important French private collection in Lyon.