LARGE FAMILLE VERTE PORCELAIN VASE OF BALUSTER COLUMN FORM, China, Qing dynasty, 19th century

h cm 52,5

The tapering, square-section body is finely painted on each side with blossoming peach trees, peonies, small birds, and rocks against a green ground; the cylindrical neck with flared rim is decorated en suite. The center of the base bears an apocryphal six-character mark of the Chenghua Emperor.