A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE 'NINE DRAGON' VASE

of slender baluster form painted with shaped panels and roundels of mythical beasts in gardens and birds and butterflies among flowers, each seperated by a sinuous dragon, the shoulder with panels of Buddhist emblems reserved on a band of trellis and cell-pattern below a band of ruyi heads at the base of the flared neck, Kangxi, 40cm high

Provenance: An old English private collection.