Lot 900.  A quadrangular famille-verte 'Landscape' vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 19 in., 48.2 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 25,000 USD. Lot sold 43,750USD. © Sotheby's

the stoutly potted square-section body with tapered rectangular sides supporting a waisted cylindrical neck and everted rim painted brightly with floral sprigs and butterflies, one side of the body painted with two figures conversing in a landscape, another side with dwellings situated among pine trees, the third side with a fisherman in a sampan, and the fourth with figure riding a mule into the mountains, the base with a small recessed square covered in clear glaze .

Provenance: Christie's London, 3rd November 2009, lot 313. 

Note: Compare a Kangxi period blue and white vases of the same shape decorated in the style of literati paintings; see one illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), Hong Kong, 2000, pl. 18; and another in the Shanghai Museum published in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 32. A similar example sold in these rooms, 20th March 2007, lot 804. 

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 11 September 2019