Lot 1819. A very rare blue and white vase, Kangxi six-character mark within double-circles and of the period (1622-1722); 16 3/8 in. (41.5 cm.) high. Estimate: HKD 400,000 - HKD 600,000. Price realised HKD 463,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2008.

Of compressed globular lower body finely painted in strong cobalt blue tones to depict a continuous landscape detailed with ladies riding on horses in a hunting scene, each holding weapons including a bow, a rifle, a halberd and spear, in pursuit of rabbits and a bird in flight, all below a single bow-string on the shoulder, rising to a gu-form neck, the lower neck decorated with a continuous river landscape scene below the slightly protruding central section with three circular medallions, each of a lady in a garden landscape, the upper neck with four ladies standing below a diamond-diaper band on the everted mouth rim, box. 

Christie's Hong Kong. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. 27 May 2008