A famille rose baluster vase
YongzhengDelicately enamelled to the obverse with an elegant lady and two boys among fine tables and antiques, their features and details finely outlined in iron-red and black, the scene filled in rich pastel colours, the reverse with a poetic landscape scene of scholars in pavilions on a mountainous lakeshore dotted with trees, the short sides respectively with flowering peonies and camellias, the thickly potted vessel covered in a bluish-white glaze and decorated with reticulated 'chilong' paired handles.44cm (17 1/4in) high