A LARGE WUCAI BALUSTER JAR AND COVERShunzhi Decorated with a lady in a long sleeved robe, her arms outstretched, amongst male and female attendants, bearing large fans, carrying vessels and wrapped qin , all in a lush pavilion garden setting, the cover and neck with large, leafy peony sprays and blue rockwork. 48cm (19in) high (2). The scene on the present vase, with a central figure of a lady with long sleeves flanked by attendants, appears on large wucai jars and covers, as well as sleeve vases, produced in the Shunzhi period. See a pair of sleeve vases in the San Antonio Museum, Texas, gift of Lenora and Walter F. Brown, illustrated by John Johnston in Chinese Ceramics: The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection at the San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, 2014, p. 112, no. 67, where the scene is identified as from The Romance of the Lute, written by Sun You in the late Ming dynasty. pare a related wucai jar, Transitional Period, illustrated by C.J.A.Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, London, 1997, no.75, p.84, and a jar illustrated by M.A.Pinto and J.P.Desroches, Chinese Export Porcelain from the Museum of Anastácio Gonçalves, Lisbon, 1996, no.86, pp.170-171.