A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE 'FIGURAL' VASE LATE QING DYNASTY The octagonal-section body with a waisted neck raised on a tall flared foot, the sides decorated with panels of Daoist Immortals with cranes and deer, sages, ladies and boys in fenced gardens, with further panels of flowering prunus, peony and lotus with birds and insects to the neck and butterflies to the foot, reserved on a ground of prunus blossom and cracked ice to the canted corners and geometric diaper to the shoulder and foot, the rim with a band of ruyi-heads, 56cm.

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