AN ELEGANT BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE, SHUNZHI... Lot 42

AN ELEGANT BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE, SHUNZHI PERIOD Size: 45.8 cm (H) the tall cylindrical sides finely painted in soft tones of blue, to depict the sixtieth birthday of Guo Zi Yi, the scene set on a palace terrace, where, accompanied by his wife and sons, he receives guests in front of a massive screen painted with misty ink landscapes, below the rounded shoulders and a straight neck, which is undecorated apart from a single raised bowstring line, below the slightly flared mouth, the base with a six character mark of Xuande within an incised double ring.