A wucai 'boys and scholars' beaker vase
19th centuryBrightly enamelled with three figural scenes, the first around the trumpet neck with two attendants presenting gifts of promotion to a court official, with an unusual European armorial device hidden in the background, the bulging mid-section with boys at play, the flaring foot with two scholars conversing in a terraced garden. 47cm (18 1/2in) high