A FAMILLE-ROSE 'BIRD AND FLOWER' VASE DATED TO THE GUIWEI YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1943, SIGNED YU HANQING (1903-1987)

each side brightly enameled with vignettes of birds and flowering plants, two sides with poetic couplets relating to the scene depicted followed by a detailed date and signature, the other sides one with date and signature, the other with just signature, with painted seals reading hua yin (painting seal) and Yu, the countersunk base with one seal reading Hanqing

The vase appears to be in good overall condition.
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Yu Hanqing was one of the first to be awarded the title of Ceramic Artist by the municipal government of Jingdezhen in 1959.