A famille rose 'scholars' baluster vase


Daoguang six-character mark, Late 19th centuryThe mid-section finely enamelled with two foliate cartouches enclosing scholars and their attendants in a pastoral landscape, reserved on a ruby-ground lotus flower meander, the shoulder with bands of ruyi-heads, key-fret and lotus lappets, with another register with Eight Buddhist Emblems, the neck flanked with stylised bat-form handles.53.5cm (21in) high