A famille-verte baluster vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period | 清康熙 五彩人物故事圖瓶

A famille-verte baluster vase 

Qing dynasty, Kangxi period

清康熙 五彩人物故事圖瓶

of baluster form, the body rising from a flared foot and surmounted by a trumpet neck, painted around the sides with a continuous scene of officials resting in pavilions admiring ladies riding horses in the garden, a canopy of scrolling clouds above, all below a band of auspicious emblems enclosed in cartouches reserved on a diapered ground around the shoulder, the neck with leafy blossoms, the base with a lingzhi mark in underglaze blue within a double circle

Height 18 ½ in., 47 cm