Description: A famille-rose landscape vase, late 19th/early 20th century
of square section, the slightly tapering body surmounted by a short narrow waisted neck with lipped rim, each side painted with mountain views, with three sages and an attendant in the foreground among pine trees on the rocky shores of a lake, and pavilions nestled among blossoming and other trees and shrubs, the base inscribed with a four-character hall mark in iron-red reading
lequtangzhi (Made by the Hall of Enjoying Antiques), wood stand
(2)
29.5 cm high
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired in Hong Kong circa 1960
Private Collection, Sydney, by descent from the above